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Definitions: Accommodative |
AccommodativeAdjective1. Helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating". 2. Willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement. 3. Tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| AC | English | Accommodative convergence | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AccommodativeSynonyms: accommodating (adj), cooperative (adj), reconciling (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: A.C./A.ratio (physics), accommodative asthenopia (medicine), accommodative convergence, accommodative convergence/accommodation, accommodative convergence/accommodation ratio 2.A.C.A.ratio (physics), accommodative esophoria (medicine), accommodative squint, gradient (physics). |
| Antonym: unaccommodating (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Accommodative |
| Specialty definitions using "accommodative": A.C./A.ratio, accommodative convergence/accommodation ratio 2.A.C.A.ratio, accommodative esophoria, accommodative squint. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Germany | It hopes that such demand management at the macro level will dampen inflationary pressures, thus leaving space for continued accommodative monetary policy to prolong the current cyclical upswing. (references) |
Thailand | Thailand's macro-economic fundamentals remain fairly solid: the interest rate environ-ment, both externally and domestically, is supportive, inflation is not a factor, and monetary policy is accommodative. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Accommodative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Accommodative" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "accommodative": accommodative convergence/accommodation ratio 2.A.C.A.ratio ♦ accommodative esophoria ♦ accommodative squint. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
accommodative esotropia | 8 |
accommodative spasm | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "accommodative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | AC/A-ratio (accommodative convergence/accommodation ratio 2.A.C.A.ratio, gradient). (various references) | |
French | quotient ACA (accommodative convergence/accommodation ratio 2.A.C.A.ratio). (various references) | |
German | versorgend. (various references) | |
Greek | διευκολυντικόσ. (various references) | |
Italian | accomodante (accommodating, easygoing, obliging). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accommodativeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | acomodatício (accommodating, supple). (various references) | |
Russian | разместительный. (various references) | |
Spanish | confortable (capacious, comfortable, comfy), cómodo (at ease, close, comfortable, convenient, cosy, cozy, easy, handy, homy, intimate). (various references) | |
Ukranian | зручний (accessible, carriageable, comfortable, comfy, convenient, cosy, couth, easeful, easy, likely, practical), послужливий (complacent, complaisant, obliging, officious). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accommodative": accommodativeness, accommodativenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "accommodative" (pronounced ukÄ"mudā'tiv) |
| 6 | -u d ā' t i v | elucidative. |
| 4 | -ā' t i v | accumulative, administrative, appreciative, authoritative, collaborative, cooperative, deliberative, dissipative, facultative, imitative, innovative, investigative, iterative, legislative, manipulative, meditative, prognosticative, qualitative, quantitative, regulative, rehabilitative, stimulative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, irrespective, laxative, locomotive, lucrative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-m-o-o-t-v" | |
-2 letters: accommodate. | |
-5 letters: academic, acetamid, advocate, coactive, commoved, moviedom. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-m-o-o-t-v" | |
+4 letters: accommodativeness. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01101111 01100100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c c o m m o d a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0063 006F 006D 006D 006F 0064 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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