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adapt: a program for the preparation of control tapes for the numerical control of machine tools
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adaptability: the ability of a robot to carry out a given task in a variable environment
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adaptability: ability to develop some form of tolerance to conditions extremely different from those under which..a living organism..evolved.
Category: Environment

adaptable: capable of making self-directed corrections.In a robot this is often accomplished with the aid of visual,force or tactile sensors
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adaptation: the biological, psychological and physical alterations in a living organism or community in order to adjust to a particular environment; the process (es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals),populations, or species change in structure, form or function in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions; any adjustment of an organism to the conditions of its environment
Category: Medicine

adaptation: a) the process(es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals),populations, or species change in structure, form or function in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions; b) also the resultant structure, form or function
Category: Botany and zoology

adaptation: result of the biological, psychological and physical alterations in a living organism or community in order to adjust to a particular environment ; the resultant structure, form or function of the process (es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals), populations, or species change in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions
Category: Medicine

adaptation: the alteration of the selective response of a neural unit due to the received signals
Category: Medicine

adaptation: the ability of a variety to derive the necessities for its favourable development in a given environment
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

adaptation: the process by which the properties of the organ of vision are modified according to the luminances or the colour stimuli presented to it,or the final state of the process
Category: Medicine

adaptation: temporary modification of sensitivity in perceiving sensory stimuli due to continous,repeated exposure to a given stimulus or one similar to it
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

adaptation: the decline in the frequency of firing of a neuron,particularly of a receptor,under conditions of constant stimulation
Category: Medicine

adapted: gripping device adapted to one specific task,modular and detachable,which can be changed by the robot itself on command
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adapter: 1)An intermediate device used to connect two variable objects, such as pipes of different sizes, or firefighting hoses of non-matching threads; 2)A device that, when added to a tool or equipment, allows it to be used for a purpose other than originally intended
Category: Management in the public and private sector

adapter: a connective device designed to affect operative capability between different parts of one or more systems and/or subsystems
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adapter: a sleeve having both male and female tapers.It is interposed between a machine taper and the taper hole in a spindle,if the latter is larger than the machine taper
Category: Mechanical engineering

adapter: interstage device used tomate and then separate adjacent stages of multi-stage vehicle
Category: Transport

adapter: a device for connecting two parts(as of different diameters)of an apparatus
Category: The chemical industry

adapter: a copywriter responsible for adapting advertising and promotional copy from its original language to a different one
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

adapter: fuse for 110v, 130v, 150v, 200v, etc.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adapter: a fitting for connecting hoses of different pitch or couplings of different diameters.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

adapting: in control systems,the ability of a system to change its performance characteristics in response to its environment
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adaptive: an antenna system having circuit elements associated with its radiating elements such that some of the antenna properties are controlled by the received signal
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adaptive: a semiconductor integrated logic consisting of an assembly of gates so connected as to be capable of performing any one of a large number of possible logic functions by reproducing a function supplied as an example
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adaptive: system where learning methods developed by researchers in electrical engineering and systems theory represent acquired knowledge in the form of polynomials and matrices;the learning systems,called adaptive systems,typically perform tasks,such as pattern classification,adaptive control and adaptive filtering
Category: General

adaptive: an open system which adapts itself to changes in its environment by feedback
Category: General

adaptive: the application of two or more image compression techniques to a single image,based on properties of different parts of the image
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adaptive: a filter circuit that automatically adjusts itself to respond to fixed-waveform signals which occur in a random manner and are completely buried in noise
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adaptive: a network facility or control strategy whereby routing is adapted to changing traffic loads and other conditions
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adaptive: a control system that adjusts the response from conditions detected during the work
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adaptive: a secondary control whose characteristics are time-variable and result from the optimisation of some operational conditions
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adaptive: diversification of a dominant evolutionary group into a large number of subsidiary types adapted to more restrictive modes of life within the range of the larger group
Category: Botany and zoology

adaptive: a feature which allows a faxmodem to answer the telephone and decide whether the incoming call is a fax or data call
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adaptive: when data are collected over a period of time,the character of the inferences made at any one point may depend on the nature of previous observations and is then said to be adaptive
Category: Mathematics

adaptive: the maintenance performed to make a software product usable in a changed environment
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adaptive: the change in the perceived colour of an object caused solely by change of chromatic adaptation
Category: Physics

adaptive: a form of differential pulse code modulation in which the prediction law and/or the quantising law are automatically adjusted according to some characteristic of the signal or channel concerned
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adaptive: able to adjust or react to a video condition or application, as an adaptive circuit
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adaptor: an intermediate device to provide for attachments such as special accessories,special mounting means or special interconnecting means
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

adaptor: s are used when it is necessary to join a socket of one size drive with a handle of a different size drive.
Category: Technical and industry in general

dysadaptation: 2)lack of,or defective,adjustment of the visual mechanism to variations in light intensity
Category: Medicine

re-adaptation: combined and coordinated use of medical,social,educational and vocational measures for training or retraining the individual to the highest possible level of functional ability
Category: Medicine

self-adapting: pertaining to the capability of a device or program to change the characteristics of its performance in response to changes in its environment
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

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