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accommodation meaning

EN[ə.ˌkɒm.ə.ˈdeɪ.ʃən] [ə.ˌkɑm.ə.ˈdeɪ.ʃən] [-eɪʃən]
WAccommodation
  • Accommodation may refer to:
  • A dwelling
  • A place of temporary lodging
  • Reasonable accommodation, a legal doctrine protecting religious minorities
  • Accommodation (religion), a theological principle linked to divine revelation within the Christian church
  • Accommodation (law), a term used in United States contract law
  • Accommodation (eye), the process by which the eye increases optical power to maintain a clear image (focus) on an object as it draws near
  • Accommodation in psychology, the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences according to Jean Piaget, in the learning broader theory of Constructivism
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    Definition of accommodation in English Dictionary

  • NounPLaccommodationsSUF-tion
    1. (chiefly Britain, usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
      1. (physical) Adaptation or adjustment.
        1. The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.
        2. Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
      2. (personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
        1. To come to terms of accommodation.
        2. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
      3. (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
      4. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Although our data cannot help explain why this occurs, we infer that microfluctuations in accommodation contribute to VA instability.
          • He’s always been far more interesting rhythmically than lyrically, but here his tendency to overenunciate, an accommodation that makes him more palatable to foreign ears, holds him back.
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • Accommodations were so poor I think we were in stowage, with the rest of the cargo.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Morphemes
          • Suffixes
            • Words by suffix
              • Words suffixed with -tion
          • Nouns
            • Countable nouns
              • Singularia tantum
                • Uncountable nouns
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            5. en accommodationism
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of accommodation for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "accommodation" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
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