Synonyms:
accommodation
Meaning: (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
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accommodation
Meaning: the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
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accommodation
Meaning: living quarters provided for public convenience; "overnight accommodations are available"
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accommodation
Meaning: in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
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accommodation
Meaning: a settlement of differences; "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
Synonyms:
adjustment, accommodation, fitting
Meaning: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
Usage examples
The upper house sent down terms of accommodation, more moderate than had hitherto been insisted on.
I was thus obliged either to wait a few hours or accept a seat with the driver, who civilly offered me that accommodation.
My friend Mr. Thomas Traddles has, on two several occasions, "put his name", if I may use a common expression, to bills of exchange for my accommodation.
Few or no instances occur in history of an equal, peaceful, and durable accommodation that has been concluded between two factions which had been inflamed into civil war.
Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants.
Hence will arise a demand for accommodation for each screw in a tube forming part of the lower hull itself and open at the side for the taking in of water, while the stern part is equally free.
What rendered an accommodation more desperate was, that the demands on these three heads, however exorbitant, were acknowledged, by the parliamentary commissioners, to be nothing but preliminaries.
The red-room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion.
This picture was not hung, as pictures usually are, against the wall; there was no inch of wall vacant for such a purpose: it had a stand or desk erected for its own accommodation; and there on her pedestal, framed and glazed, stood the devotional lady looking intently at a lily as no lady ever looked before.
The thing had become a fashion with a certain Bohemian-spirited class; they added cabin to cabin, and these little improvised homes, gaily painted and with broad verandas and supplementary leantos added to their accommodation, made the brightest contrast conceivable to the dull rigidities of the decorous resorts.