Accommodation

• adjustment: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
• a settlement of differences; "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
• the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
• (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
• Accommodation is a term used in United States contract law under the Uniform Commercial Code to describes a delivery of nonconforming goods meant as a partial performance of a contract for the sale of goods, where a full performance is not possible.
• A change in how a test is presented, in how it is administered, or in how the test taker is allowed to respond. This term generally refers to changes that do not substantially alter what the test measures.
• An obligation assumed without consideration.
• An individual organism’s response to changes in its ecosystem.
• increase in focusing power of the eye to maintain a clear image as objects move closer. This occurs through a process of muscle contraction and relaxation of fibers that causes the elastic-like lens to become rounder. Natural loss of accommodation with increasing age is called presbyopia.
• The lending of one person's good name or credit standing to a second person with no compensation in order that the second person may borrow money from a third person.