Accommodation
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Accommodation may refer to:
- A dwellingDwellingDwelling, as well as being a term for a house, or for living somewhere, or for lingering somewhere, is a philosophical concept which was developed by Martin Heidegger. Dwelling is about making yourself at home where the home itself is a building that is a house...
- A place of temporary lodgingLodgingLodging is a type of residential accommodation. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging for sleep, rest, safety, shelter from cold temperatures or rain, storage of luggage and access to common household functions.Lodgings may be self catering in which case no...
- Accommodation (religion)Accommodation (religion)Accommodation is the theological principle that God, while being in his nature unknowable and unreachable, has nevertheless communicated with mankind in a way in which humans can understand and respond....
, a theological principle linked to divine revelation within the Christian church - Accommodation (law)Accommodation (law)Accommodation is a term used in United States contract law under the Uniform Commercial Code to describe 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. The accommodation must be specified as such in a...
, a term used in United States contract law - Accommodation (eye)Accommodation (eye)Accommodation is the process by which the vertebrate eye changes optical power to maintain a clear image on an object as its distance changes....
, the process by which the eye increases optical power to maintain a clear image (focus) on an object as it draws near - Accommodation in psychology, the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences according to Jean Piaget, in the learning broader theory of ConstructivismConstructivism (learning theory)Constructivism is a theory of knowledge that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas. During infancy, it was an interaction between human experiences and their reflexes or behavior-patterns. Piaget called these systems of...
- Accommodations, a technique for education-related disabilities in special education services
- Communication accommodation theory, the process by which people change their language behavior to be more or less similar to that of the people with whom they are interacting
- Accommodation, a linguistics term meaning grammatical acceptance of unstated values as in accommodation of presuppositions
- Biblical accommodationBiblical AccommodationBiblical Accommodation is the adaptation of words or sentences from the Bible to signify ideas different from those expressed therin. Thus, if a sinner excuses his fault by saying, "The serpent deceived me", he applies the scriptural words of Eve to express an idea which the sentence does not...
, the adaptation of text from the Bible to signify ideas different from those originally expressed - PS AccommodationPS AccommodationThe Canadian paddlewheeler Accommodation was the first successful steamboat built entirely in North America.Financed by brewer John Molson, she was constructed by John Jackson and John Bruce in Montréal in 1809, using engines built in Forges Saint-Maurice, Trois-Rivières...
was a pioneer Canadian steamboat built by John Molson