counteradaptation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. adaptation that counters a change to an organism's environment; The development of tolerance; the adaptation of the body's homeostatic mechanisms to counteract a drug effect. countable,uncountable
    — Repeated AOD exposure also can lead to adaptations in the reward circuitry that oppose and neutralize a drug's effects (i.e., counteradaptation).
  2. adaptation that counters a change to an organism's environment; The evolutionary adaptation of one species to adaptive changes by another. countable,uncountable
    — Thus the plant's allomonic adaptation has been exactly reversed by this insect's counteradaptation.
  3. adaptation that counters a change to an organism's environment; The distortion of one sensory modality that accompanies adaptation to alterations in a perceptual cues from a related modality. countable,uncountable
    — Several investigators haye found little or no adaptation to size, and the phenonmenon of counteradaptation has been offered as an alternative to the explanation that adaptation to a purely visual phenomenon (such as size) occurs through a different process than does adaptation to hand-eye coordination (as adaptation to distance is often measured).

词形变化

counteradaptations plural counter-adaptation alternative

词汇关系

相关词
counteradapt counteradaptive

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Medieval Latin ad-
Proto-Italic *aptos
Medieval Latin aptus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Medieval Latin -ō
Medieval Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Medieval Latin -tus
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Medieval Latin -ō
Medieval Latin -tō
Medieval Latin aptō
Medieval Latin adaptō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Medieval Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin adaptātiōbor.
French adaptationbor.
English adaptation
English counteradaptation
From counter- + adaptation.
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