ACCOMMODATION

accommodation

(noun) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye

accommodation

(noun) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

accommodation

(noun) living quarters provided for public convenience; “overnight accommodations are available”

accommodation

(noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

accommodation

(noun) a settlement of differences; “they reached an accommodation with Japan”

adjustment, accommodation, fitting

(noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

accommodation (countable and uncountable, plural accommodations)

(chiefly, British, usually, a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

(physical) Adaptation or adjustment.

(countable, uncountable) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

(countable, physiology, biology) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

(countable, medical) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

(personal) Adaptation or adjustment.

(countable, uncountable) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

(countable, uncountable) Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

(countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

(countable, commerce) A loan of money.

(countable, commerce) An accommodation bill or note.

(countable, legal) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

(theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.

(countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

(linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modifications to make one's way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse; code-switching.

Source: Wiktionary

Ac*com`mo*da"tion, n. Etym: [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]

1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accomodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott.

4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation." Macaulay.

5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit.

– Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations.

– Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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