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Accommodation   /əkˌɑmədˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Accommodation

noun
1.
Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances.  Synonyms: adjustment, fitting.
2.
A settlement of differences.
3.
In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality.
4.
Living quarters provided for public convenience.
5.
The act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need.
6.
(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye.



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"Accommodation" Quotes from Famous Books



... having been introduced and then summarily dismissed by the arbitrary Jessie, set out on a tour of inspection, while the elders, proceeding upstairs, set themselves to solve a problem in sleeping accommodation that would have daunted the proprietor of a Margate lodging-house. A scheme was at last arranged by which Hartley gave up his bedroom to the three Misses Trimblett and retired to a tiny room under the tiles. Miss Trimblett pointed out that ...
— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs

... back, reduplicated, the clatter of her exhaust, and, tireless, she repeated the motions. Over naked uplands she droned like a homing bee, her shadow lengthening in the sun that she chased to his lair. She nosed up unparochial byways and accommodation- roads of the least accommodation, and put old scarred turf or new-raised molehills under her most marvellous springs with never a jar. And since the King's highway is used for every purpose save ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

... the night, she went away noiselessly like a lovely ghost and disappeared, her step making no sound on the short wooden stairs that led to the upper room which she had hastily arranged for her own accommodation, in place of the one now occupied by the homeless wayfarer ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli

... the mosque, with some buildings and schools attached to it, Mekka cannot boast of any public edifices, and in this respect is, perhaps, more deficient than any other eastern city of the same size. Neither khans, for the accommodation of travellers, or for the deposit of merchandize, nor palaces of grandees, nor mosques, which adorn every quarter of other towns in the East, are here to be seen; and we may perhaps attribute this ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 358 - Vol. XIII, No. 358., Saturday, February 28, 1829 • Various

... be a pretty mean trick to leave Steve. At least, he'd wait there until the last moment. The minutes passed and the hands on the clock further along the barrier crept nearer and nearer to the time set for the departure of the Brimfield accommodation. Tom wondered when the next train after ...
— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour


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