{
  "id": "adaptation.biological",
  "term": "adaptation",
  "sense": "biological",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "domain": "biology",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When a thing changes to be different and yet persists through time in a place.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "persist.continue",
      "difference.relation",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "A thing changes over time and keeps being, but its pattern becomes different from before in a regular way.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "fit to environment",
      "new stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "live.biological",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "adaptation enables living things to continue"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "adaptation",
    "adaptations"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-adaptation.biological"
}