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| n. (event) | 1. accommodation, adjustment, fitting | making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances. | 
|  | ~ readjustment | the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances). | 
|  | ~ domestication | accommodation to domestic life.; "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication" | 
|  | ~ habituation | a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions. | 
|  | ~ betterment, improvement, advance | a change for the better; progress in development. | 
|  | ~ shakedown | initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state.; "the new industry's economic shakedown" | 
| n. (artifact) | 2. fitting | a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system. | 
|  | ~ accessory, add-on, appurtenance, supplement | a supplementary component that improves capability. | 
|  | ~ gas fitting | the fitting (pipes or valves or meters) that convey gas from the gas main to the gas fixtures of a building. | 
|  | ~ pipe fitting, pipefitting | fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together. | 
|  | ~ receptacle | an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert. | 
| n. (artifact) | 3. appointment, fitting | (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel). | 
|  | ~ furnishing | (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable. | 
|  | ~ plural, plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one. | 
| n. (act) | 4. fitting, try-on, trying on | putting clothes on to see whether they fit. | 
|  | ~ trial, run, test | the act of testing something.; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial" | 
| adj. | 5. fitting | in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion.; "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this" | 
|  | ~ proper | marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness.; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" | 
| adj. | 6. fitting, meet | being precisely fitting and right.; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" | 
|  | ~ just | used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting.; "a just and lasting peace"; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward"; "his just inheritance" | 
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