Adaptation vs Judgment - What's the difference?
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(label) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
(label) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1911
, passage=ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.}}
(label) Something which has been adapted; variation.
* {{quote-book, author=Frederick Lawton, title=, year=1910
, passage=Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.}}
The act of judging.
The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
* Psalms 72:2 ().
* Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream , I-i
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
* Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona , IV-iv
(legal) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
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* Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice , IV-i
(theology) The final award; the last sentence.
As nouns the difference between adaptation and judgment
is that adaptation is (label) the quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment while judgment is the act of judging.adaptation
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(wikipedia adaptation)Noun
Derived terms
{{der3, adaptational , adaptationism , adaptationist}}judgment
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Alternative forms
* judgement (British) * iugement, iudgement, iudgment, iudgemente, iudgmente (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment .
- Hermia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
- She in my judgment was as fair as you.
- In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.
- Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment .