accommodation | |
1. n. (chiefly British usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc. | |
2. n. (physical) Adaptation or adjustment. | |
3. n. (followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. | |
4. n. A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. | |
5. n. (physiology, biology) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. | |
6. n. (medical) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object. | |
7. n. (personal) Adaptation or adjustment. | |
8. n. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. | |
9. n. Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. | |
10. n. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. | |
11. n. (commerce) A loan of money. | |
12. n. (commerce) An accommodation bill or note. | |
13. n. (legal) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted. | |
14. n. (theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its content | |
15. n. (geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation. | |
16. n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modifications to make one's way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. | |