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Adoptive vs Adaptive - What's the difference?

adoptive | adaptive |

As adjectives the difference between adoptive and adaptive

is that adoptive is related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption while adaptive is of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.

adoptive

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.
    • My adoptive parents recently got to know my biological parents.

    adaptive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Charles Darwin, title=, year=1859
    • , passage=The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.}}
  • * {{quote-book, author=C. Lloyd Morgan, title=, year=1896
    • , passage=That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.}}
  • Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
  • (psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.

    • Synonyms

    * (capable of being adapted) adaptable * adaptative

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptivity * adaptive beamformer * adaptive behaviour * adaptive bridge * adaptive clothing * adaptive coding * adaptive communications * adaptive compression * adaptive enzyme * adaptive equalization * adaptive expectations * adaptive filter * adaptive hypertrophy * adaptive management * adaptive modulation * adaptive optics * adaptive predictive coding * adaptive radiation * adaptive resonance * adaptive reuse * adaptive routing * adaptive switching * adaptive system * adaptive technology * adaptive value * adaptive zone

    Related terms

    * adapt * adaptable * adaptative * adaptly * adaptorial

    References

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