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ADAPTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a capacity for adaptation
Example:
the adaptive coloring of a chameleon
Synonyms:
adaptative; adaptive
Classified under:
Similar:
accommodative; reconciling (tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony)
adaptational (of or relating to adaptation)
adjustive (conducive to adjustment)
Antonym:
maladaptive (showing faulty adaptation)
Derivation:
adapt (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions)
Context examples:
A developmental disorder characterized by less than average intelligence and significant limitations in adaptive behavior with onset before the age of 18.
(Mental Retardation, NCI Thesaurus)
The switch from childhood to adolescence brought about neurobiological, psychological and neuro-adaptive changes, which happen at the same time as important physical and hormonal transformations.
(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)
The team combined high-resolution spectroscopy with a technique known as adaptive optics, which corrected the blurring effect of Earth’s atmosphere.
(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Mills and team point out that the areas with co-existing winter brown and winter white animals would be places with special potential for evolutionary rescue, where genetically driven adaptive traits reverse population decline.
(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)
It accomplishes this by boosting the effectiveness of CD8+ T cells, adaptive immune cells trained to target the tumor for destruction.
(Immune Stimulant Molecule Protects against Cancer Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Most of the world is forested, but the energetic constraints of a leafy diet seem to prevent adaptive radiation.
(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)
Adaptive styles of humour include affiliative humour, which is aimed at strengthening social relationships.
(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)
It produces vast amounts of type I interferons especially in response to viruses, therefore playing an important role in antiviral immunity and triggers for adaptive immune responses.
(Plasmacytoid Monocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
The mechanism of NK cell killing is the same as that used by the cytotoxic T cells generated in an adaptive immune response; cytotoxic granules are released onto the surface of the bound target cell, and the effector proteins they contain penetrate the cell membrane and induce programmed cell death.
(Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
The questions can be administered in short forms or adaptively through computerized adaptive testing and reports can be generated to allow clinicians to better understand how treatments might affect the quality of life of their patients.
(Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System, NCI Thesaurus)
