0 having an ability to change to suit changing conditions:
These governments do not possess the adaptive capacity to endure such changes.
2 changing quickly to suit different conditions:
Adaptive organizations rely on fast feedback from customers to respond to market changes.
Their favoured approach seems to be adaptive management, in which policymakers alter their policies as conditions change.
adaptive processes/systems/strategies
The vehicle's radar system includes collision warning and adaptive cruise control.
The speaker shared his insights on nurturing a new generation of adaptive innovators.
He warned that the organization remains "a determined, adaptive, resilient enemy".
T-cells are part of our adaptive immune system that seek and destroy previously-encountered pathogens.
Antibiotics can destroy both good and bad bacteria, ultimately weakening our immune system and making pathogenic bacteria more adaptive and difficult to cure.
There is a theory that phobias are a result of evolution – a malfunction of adaptive response.
They may have done so originally, but we must remember that the embryonic life itself has been subject to adaptive changes for millions of years.
This is especially true in the case of such adaptive instincts as curiosity, imitation, and play.
