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Definition of adaptations

Adaptation
Adaptation Ad`ap*ta"tion, n. [Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio.] 1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. ``Adaptation of the means to the end.' --Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.

Meaning of adaptations from wikipedia

- Structural adaptations are physical features of an organism, such as shape, body covering, armament, and internal organization. Behavioural adaptations are inherited...
- in fact, always adaptations built by natural selection for their functional role. This position is called "empirical adaptationism" by Godfrey-Smith...
- big success. In the adaptation of The X-Files to film, greater effects and a longer plotline were involved. Additionally, adaptations of television shows...
- short stories. The most celebrated of the early adaptations is Erich von Stroheim's Greed, a 1924 adaptation of the 1899 novel McTeague by naturalist writer...
- derivatives in modern literature. For more than a century, dramatic adaptations, reprints, unofficial sequels, films, and TV versions of Pride and Prejudice...
- Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film. Screen Adaptations. A&C Black. ISBN 9781408144015. "Thailand bans Macbeth film Shakespeare...
- myths and narratives for the stage (Aeschylus, Sophocles' and Euripides' adaptations of Homer). William Shakespeare was an arch adaptor, as nearly all of...
- This is a list of films based on manga. It includes films that are adaptations of manga, and those films whose characters originated in those comics....
- stage, screen, radio, board games and video games. Several of these adaptations have received critical recognition of their own, including a video game...
- Adaptation is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicolas Cage...