acclimate
The climber has a day-by-day plan for acclimation on the mountain.
All three species of fish demonstrated very poor survival at 4℃ and no capacity for acclimation.
He spent four years in Europe, where the acclimation to culture and climate was difficult.
Your pet's favourite blanket and toys will help with the acclimation process when you move.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Adapting and modifying
acclimate
acclimatization
acclimatize
acclimatize to something
accommodate
ambidextrous
chameleon
change with/keep up with/move with the timesidiom
configure
counter-adaptation
doctor something with something
pliantly
preadaptation
preadaptive
put something back
put something/someone forward
unadapted
unamended
write someone out of something
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Examples of acclimation

acclimation
However, there are no reports of shade acclimation in terms of dry matter partitioning of banana.
This could indicate acclimation during burial, to an open environment and to shade forest environment, respectively, more than to the shade house conditions.
For example, pre-adaptation to cold may protect against subsequent exposure to ionizing radiation (positive acclimation), but may increase vulnerability to hypoxia (negative acclimation).
In three chapters an excellent overview about basic controlling factors and their interactions, spatial and temporal variability and acclimation and response to disturbance is given.
Observations on performance were followed for two generations in order to examine possible acclimation effects.
At higher temperatures, physiological acclimation alone is insufficient, and consequently a change in the species composition occurs.
Physiological acclimation serves to minimize variations in the growth rate when environmental growth-controlling factors vary.
Acclimation of seedlings of three tropical rain forest species to changing light availability.
Photosynthetic acclimation of plants to growth irradiance: the relative importance of specific leaf area and nitrogen partitioning in maximising carbon gain.
Cold acclimation of winter and spring pea: carbon partitioning as affected by light intensity.
This suggests an acclimation of the apterous females to the new nutritional environment.
Their results suggest that these two antagonistic effects represent acclimation and adaptation mechanisms adjusting species to the environment.
When algae experience changes in light regime, acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus occurs, resulting in the optimization of photosynthetic efficiency.
They proposed that alterations in thermal acclimation patterns by one species prevented colonization by the other.
During acclimation, the fish were fed un-medicated pellet food, but kept unfed during the experiments.
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