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1. Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
   - adjustment, fitting
    
2. A settlement of differences
   "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
    
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
   "overnight accommodations are available"
    
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

Derived forms: accommodations

See also: accommodate, accommodational

Type of: adjustment, advance, aid, alteration, assist, assistance, betterment, developmental learning, help, improvement, living quarters, modification, quarters, settlement

Encyclopedia: Accommodation Accommodation, Biblical Accommodation, ocular