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accommodation Physiol the automatic or voluntary adjustment of the shape of the lens of the eye for far or near vision accommodation [ə‚käm·ə′dā·shən] (control systems) Any alteration in a robot's motion in response to the robot's environment; it may be active or passive. (ecology) A population's location within a habitat. (mapping) The limits or range within which a stereo-plotting instrument is capable of operating. (physiology) A process in most vertebrates whereby the focal length of the eye is changed by automatic adjustment of the lens to bring images of objects from various distances into focus on the retina. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Not only was the Hand-in-Hand inn crowded, but even the accommodation offered by the nearest town had proved barely sufficient to meet the public demand. There was just the accommodation in her to sleep a man and a dog. Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty. |
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