adapted

adapt | American Dictionary

adapt
verb[ I/T ]
us/əˈdæpt/
to adjust to different conditions or uses, or to change to meet different situations

adapt | Business English

adapt
verb
uk /əˈdæpt/us
[ I ]
to become familiar with a new situation:
adapt to sthTo remain competitive the company has to be able to adapt to the changing marketplace.
adapt to doing sthDick has adapted very well to running a multinational.
[ T ]
to change something to suit different conditions or uses:
Sometimes you have to adapt the design to suit the customer's requirements.
adapt sth for sthIt was the first time a British brewer had adapted a product for French tastes.

adapted

adjective
This adapted procedure was problematic in many ways.

Examples of adapt

adapt
Most obviously, his music adapts conspicuously to match each visual change.
The design can be adapted as a traditional design to accommodate multiple dosages and multiple agents.
In general, there was a high level of continuity here and considerable dexterity in adapting to the new masters.
Inference at runtime consists of matching prior cases that are most like the new situation, then adapting those prior cases to the new situation.
When changes occurred, the older people adapted to their new circumstances in a continuous process.
The jobber system was, he argued, adapted to the cultural imperatives of the workers and their society.
The steps are adapted from those of ' ballroom ' dances, with much interchange among the various dances.
Finally, we consider perceptual mechanisms as part of a functional architecture whose outcome is adapted action.
Under these conditions the subject rapidly obtains a bistable form of adaptation, adapted to both wearing and not wearing the spectacles.
Many useful traits are not adapted for those uses.
The techniques that farmers have adapted for deep-water cultivation have varied with topography and technological innovations.
The representation approach is general and can be adapted for different space resolutions and granularities of relations.
The trend is toward more human-centric inter face design, so that people can interact with computers naturally instead of adapting to machine-oriented procedures.
The method is therefore well adapted for use as a basis for a spatial reasoning formalism.
Cross-fostering practices allow the number of piglets to be adapted to the number of teats of the sow resulting in a decrease in piglet mortality.
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