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Learning vs Adaptation - What's the difference?

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In uncountable terms the difference between learning and adaptation

is that learning is accumulated knowledge while adaptation is 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.

In countable terms the difference between learning and adaptation

is that learning is something that has been learned while adaptation is something which has been adapted; variation.

As a verb learning

is present participle of lang=en.

learning

English

Verb

(head)
    • I'm learning to ride a unicycle.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
    • Learning to ride a unicycle sounds exciting.
  • (uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
    • The department head was also a scholar of great learning .
  • (countable) Something that has been learned
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 5, author=Stuart Elliott, title=Online Experiment for Print Magazine, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.” }}

    Usage notes

    Countable sense “thing learned” often used in plural form (m); see for details.

    Derived terms

    * book-learning * higher learning * learning curve * learning disability * learning by doing

    adaptation

    English

    (wikipedia adaptation)

    Noun

  • (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.}}

    Derived terms

    {{der3, adaptational , adaptationism , adaptationist}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, adapt , adaptability , adaptedness , adapter , adaption , adaptitude , co-adaptation}}