ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation
Accommodation is the process by which the vertebrate eye changes optical power to maintain a clear image or focus on an object as its distance varies.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Accommodation (eye)
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accommodation
Noun
- Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
- The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
- Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn
- Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
- The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
- Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
- A loan of money.
- An accommodation bill or note.
- An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted
- The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
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