ADAPTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adaptive mean? 

• ADAPTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective ADAPTIVE has 1 sense:

1. having a capacity for adaptation

  Familiarity information: ADAPTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADAPTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a capacity for adaptation

Synonyms:

adaptative; adaptive

Context example:

the adaptive coloring of a chameleon

Similar:

accommodative; reconciling (tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony)

adaptational (of or relating to adaptation)

adjustive (conducive to adjustment)

Antonym:

maladaptive (showing faulty adaptation)

Derivation:

adapt (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions)

 Context examples 

This adaptive update mechanism appears to have evolved to allow new information available at the time of retrieval to be incorporated into the brain's original representation of the memory, explains Phelps.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

B cells are an important component of adaptive immunity.

(B Cell Receptor Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

T cells, especially helper T cells, are a key part of the adaptive immune system.

(Rapid-response immune cells are fully prepared before invasion strikes, NIH)

This allele, which encodes CD209 antigen immunoprotein, plays a role in T-cell receptor engagement and adaptive immune responses.

(CD209 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): adaptive, blocked, stratified, allocation based on past response.

(Defined Experimental Unit Allocation Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

This allele, which encodes hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha protein, is involved in angiogenesis and transcriptional regulation during the cellular adaptive response to hypoxia.

(HIF1A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A scale used as an instrument to assess a child's motor and language development, as well as personal-social and adaptive behaviors.

(Gesell Developmental Schedule, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes high affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc receptor I, plays a role in both innate and adaptive immune responses.

(FCGR1A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A state of physiological or psychological stress that cannot be compensated for by normal adaptive measures.

(Distress, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, the Listeria vector itself may induce a potent innate and adaptive immunity unrelated to mesothelin expression.

(Live-Attenuated Listeria Encoding Human Mesothelin Vaccine CRS-207, NCI Thesaurus)