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accommodation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hotel accommodationBritish English, hotel accommodations American English (= rooms in a hotel)
▪ The price includes hotel accommodation.
secure accommodationBritish English (= a type of prison)
▪ In the last year, only three children under the age of 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation.
self-catering accommodation/apartment/cottage etc
temporary accommodation
temporary accommodation
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
▪ It then gave her notice to quit the temporary accommodation, and offered her alternative accommodation elsewhere which she refused.
▪ If your accommodation has to be changed we will do our best to provide alternative accommodation of similar or higher official classification.
▪ Of the 59 people who were living there, 29 have had to go into alternative accommodation.
▪ Assistance may take the form of an offer of alternative accommodation or a cash payment.
▪ Reasonable alternative accommodation, if this is necessary.
▪ Most firms have found alternative accommodation already.
▪ If life at home becomes impossible, well-run alternative accommodation where individual privacy and dignity are respected is preferred.
▪ It was a Militant councillor who found her alternative accommodation where she was later to give birth to her daughter, Claire.
comfortable
▪ It's a smaller establishment with comfortable accommodation.
▪ The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings, and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.
▪ Surely no-one in Castlereagh would begrudge a modest investment in proper safe, clean and comfortable working accommodation for their public servants?
▪ These provide a very clean and comfortable accommodation with private facilities.
▪ These pleasing establishments offer comfortable accommodation with friendly service.
▪ For comfortable, affordable accommodation around south Belfast is almost impossible to find.
▪ Essentially it is a traditional wood-faced village inn, offering comfortable accommodation, excellent cuisine and good value.
▪ The area is best explored from Nidri, a busy new village with three convenient beaches and comfortable accommodation.
free
▪ As things stand, ministers who oversee large state industries enjoy free accommodation at five-star hotels and foreign travel.
▪ They were offering free accommodation and food to some one who would do what they described as a little gentle housework.
▪ The Birmingham Convention &038; Visitor Bureau offers a free accommodation booking service for visitors to the city.
▪ In return for free accommodation and a lot of my attention, they helped me get up and go to bed.
▪ Benefits include free furnished accommodation, 30 working days annual leave, family airfares, medical care and children's educational assistance.
▪ Guests who stay on over the Friday and Saturday nights and also have dinner in the hotel will receive free accommodation.
▪ The church pay my salary and have provided free accommodation, a cottage adjacent to the church.
good
▪ It offers good size accommodation, benefiting from three good bedrooms, two separate reception rooms and partial gas fired central heating.
▪ Accommodation Eleven years as the principal tour operators in Nidri enable us to choose the best accommodation in town.
▪ Found very good accommodation - good dinner and several beers consumed.
▪ Nidri A fabulous location with good accommodation and swimming pool.
Better still, would be to think again about the best sort of accommodation for these sensitive areas.
▪ They would be provided in good quality accommodation.
▪ Beautifully decorated inside and out, the Maria offers a good standard of accommodation and traditional family hospitality at a reasonable price.
▪ This particular property offers good sized accommodation with a multitude of possibilities.
living
▪ The only possible scope for early development is in association with its agricultural use, for example living accommodation for farm workers or owner-occupiers.
▪ The Census includes questions about living accommodation.
▪ Each apartment has basic, simple furnishings and a two-ring stove, living accommodation, shower room, and patio or terrace.
▪ They insisted upon coming out to Reine to inspect my living accommodation, and the person with whom I shared it.
▪ I hoped the simplicity of our living accommodation was not going to be a horrible disappointment to him.
▪ It is an ideal centre, with a synthetic track and weight-training facilities very close to the living accommodation.
▪ These will be sold or leased to trainers with living accommodation.
▪ The fortifications were slowly curtailed, and the living accommodation became more spacious and comfortable.
new
▪ The issues are revenue grant aid and the acquisition of new office accommodation.
▪ On new office accommodation the Council will explain the latest position regarding the new building at South Gyle.
▪ The new accommodation is on one floor, set round a pretty courtyard which echoes the traditional details of the existing structure.
▪ Much of my spare time then went into trying to find new accommodation.
▪ The calculation will, of course, vary, depending upon the plaintiff's circumstances and the nature of the new accommodation.
▪ He moved in to the new, roomier accommodation.
▪ Many of these houses represented virtually the only new private-sector accommodation available in the inner cities.
▪ Teaching takes place in new purpose-built accommodation including a suite of laboratories equipped with the latest hardware and software.
other
▪ I have continued to live there as my sole residence and do not have any other home or accommodation.
▪ Should they digress they would be asked to find other accommodation forthwith.
▪ But, once they had seen the flat in the exclusive block where Rosemary lived, no other accommodation bore comparison.
▪ They plan to release the residents of Gorse Hill into the community or into other council owned accommodation.
▪ Nevertheless I set off northwards, feeling sure that there would be other accommodation along the way.
▪ This will give you and your family time to look for other accommodation in the area.
▪ Mr Major, who normally sleeps in a top-floor flat above his office, will be found other accommodation in Whitehall.
overnight
▪ Included in the cost is all overnight accommodation.
▪ For $ 239, you and your Valentine are treated to the same fabulous dinner, and overnight accommodations.
▪ Except where * indicates that overnight accommodation for 3 nights in Budapest is on a bed and breakfast basis.
▪ Day 8 Agra-Khajuraho A morning flight will take you to Khajuraho with overnight accommodation at the Taj.
▪ Several can offer overnight accommodation to pilots socked-inn by weather.
▪ Many of these huts provide overnight accommodation if you feel like being a bit adventurous.
▪ Ultimately, it is expected to provide overnight accommodation for up to 30 volunteers.
▪ The cost of your ticket, plus overnight accommodation and full Yorkshire breakfast, will be £28.50.
public
▪ Under my construction, the Act would apply to all customers in all the enumerated places of public accommodation.
▪ Mostly at issue was the integration of schools or public accommodations.
▪ Congress may forbid discrimination in public accommodations that are related to interstate commerce. 28.
▪ Its state legislators refused to adopt public accommodations laws for their counties.
reasonable
▪ Despite this, the hiring of a personal assistant might be a reasonable accommodation in some circumstances.
▪ Kennedy, for his part, seemed open to the reasonable accommodation.
▪ We were pleased to work out a reasonable accommodation with Senator Sher to provide some relief to tenants.
▪ Both companies have policies about benefits, disability, reasonable accommodation, discrimination and employee assistance.
rented
▪ The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
▪ An overwhelming proportion of private rented accommodation is to be found in the major cities, notably London and Liverpool.
▪ This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
▪ Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
▪ In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.
▪ Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
▪ We will extend the security of tenure in private rented accommodation to a similar level to that enjoyed by council tenants.
▪ Unfurnished rented accommodation is no cheaper than furnished accommodation in London.
residential
▪ Readers who book residential accommodation will be entitled to £20 discount per person, per night.
▪ There is even a school of thought that says some 1960s office blocks outside prime areas should be refurbished as residential accommodation.
▪ Middlesbrough woman Gwen Lamb was shocked to discover that anyone can offer residential accommodation to the most vulnerable in society.
▪ For example, there is nothing about people in residential accommodation but several pages on the benefit position of 16- and 17-year-olds.
▪ Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation.
▪ An occupier of residential accommodation at a rent for a term is either a lodger or a tenant.
▪ When welfare departments were created in 1948, their major concern as regards old people was with residential accommodation.
▪ Relatively few are in hospitals or residential accommodation.
secure
▪ At present, too many young offenders are being remanded in prisons because local authorities lack enough secure accommodation for them.
▪ They are the result of a conference held last year for young women in secure accommodation.
▪ The boy, who had only been in care for a short while before the incident, is now in secure accommodation.
▪ And in the last two years only three children under 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation.
▪ There will be an interim secure accommodation order for three weeks from today.
▪ It is clear that the planning meeting was for the purpose of deciding how the period in secure accommodation should be managed.
▪ However, I wish to address one potentially significant impact of the Act in relation to secure accommodation applications in civil proceedings.
▪ On 7 December 1990 a secure accommodation order was made by the justices under section 21A of the Child Care Act 1980.
sheltered
▪ Twenty one pensioners had to be rescued by boat from their sheltered accommodation.
▪ Well, I live in sheltered accommodation and, believe me, I have to pay the full licence fee.
▪ Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
▪ Some older people are keen to live in sheltered accommodation where they hope for a combination of independence and security.
▪ Housing associations as well as local authorities are involved in the provision of sheltered accommodation.
▪ With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
▪ I hope it doesn't drag on! 29. Sheltered accommodation here is a little different.
▪ A recent development in the property market has been the creation of sheltered accommodation for the elderly - both rented and private.
sleeping
▪ Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens, television and sleeping accommodation.
▪ Minshuku are the best bet for the budget travellers with ryokan-style floor sleeping accommodation.
▪ Dawn is not ideal even now as it has very limited sleeping accommodation.
suitable
▪ Prices do not apply to Public Holiday periods unless otherwise stated, and are subject to availability of suitable accommodation.
▪ This judgment has to be made before the executive act of securing the suitable accommodation for the applicant can be performed.
▪ Careful thought must be given to the requirements of the plants and livestock and suitable accommodation provided.
▪ Jack was offered voluntary redundancy in late August and it was confirmed that there was suitable accommodation at the Kings Lodge base.
▪ Particular difficulties with regard to finding suitable accommodation at the right price, have been experienced by married students arriving with their families.
▪ Some follies, however, do not provide suitable accommodation or are simply too small.
▪ He was seeking advice with regard to the Council's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation.
▪ If you have a family, you should have organised suitable long-term accommodation before bringing them with you to Edinburgh.
temporary
▪ Brian, you and Kerrie have been in temporary accommodation since January 1991.
▪ Until then, Ted is staying in temporary accommodation and praying that lightning never strikes 3 times in the same place.
▪ The local authority brought proceedings in the county court for possession of the temporary accommodation.
▪ It is temporary accommodation which puts most permanent local housing to shame.
▪ With the help of the Village Retail Services Association it formed a co-operative to run a village store in temporary accommodation.
▪ It is estimated more than 2,000 people now sleep on London's streets and another 50,000 in various forms of temporary accommodation.
▪ We do not pay the cost of meals at the temporary accommodation. 2.
▪ The building has twice been enlarged and now has temporary accommodation.
■ NOUN
breakfast
▪ The authority spent £18,500 on bed and breakfast accommodation because its existing hostel was full.
▪ Families favour the Arts Centre over bed and breakfast accommodation because it offers a greater privacy.
▪ For an increasing number of them, bed and breakfast accommodation is all that can be found and many stay there indefinitely.
▪ Sixty-five National Trust tenants offer bed and breakfast accommodation in beautiful areas of countryside protected by the Trust.
▪ Has reduced the number of families in bed and breakfast accommodation.
▪ Last night 100 families were being housed in bed and breakfast accommodation the first time the total has reached three figures.
▪ Last February, fewer than 50 families were in bed and breakfast accommodation in the town.
▪ We will fund the provision of short-term rented housing to reduce the use of bed and breakfast accommodation.
hotel
▪ We chose Bedford as it was almost the only place in the locality where hotel accommodation was available.
▪ Included in the cost are round-trip airfare from New York, hotel accommodations, kosher breakfasts and dinners, sightseeing and transfers.
▪ Continue your journey south for a late arrival at your hotel accommodation.
▪ After the war everything cost more: gasoline, buses, hotel accommodations, and musicians' salaries.
▪ The price of your fly-drive holiday includes both car hire and hotel accommodation vouchers.
▪ An allowance is made for unused hotel accommodation in Bangkok.
▪ The hotel accommodation is provided by the Friendly Hotels Group.
▪ At what point do tour operators firmly reserve their hotel accommodation?
office
▪ The issues are revenue grant aid and the acquisition of new office accommodation.
▪ On new office accommodation the Council will explain the latest position regarding the new building at South Gyle.
▪ The train has its own telephone exchange and electricity generating car, plus office accommodations and restaurant cars for the royal entourage.
▪ He invested £10,000 in office accommodation and equipment - but the deal never materialised.
▪ In addition, Abbey National provides office accommodation for the Centre.
▪ The space released in Senate House will provide some much-needed additional office accommodation.
▪ Don't forget your production facilities, your office accommodation, your transport fleet.
▪ It proved to planners and developers that modern, desirable office accommodation could be provided in existing buildings.
student
▪ We've checked the student accommodation she was using.
▪ Institutions do not provide enough student accommodation.
▪ He prefers student accommodation in towns with universities, such as Nottingham or Portsmouth, Leicester and Newcastle.
■ VERB
arrange
▪ Having changed money in one office, I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation.
▪ Would it be possible to arrange accommodation? 5.
▪ Perhaps she should have let Signor Candiano arrange her accommodation and meet her.
▪ Michael can arrange hotel accommodation, baby sitting and much more for you.
find
▪ He said the association was trying to find accommodation for the residents.
▪ He chose accessible routes, found accommodations in remote areas and was knowledgeable about local plants, animals and customs.
▪ A prisoner release organisation was helping him find accommodation.
▪ Should they digress they would be asked to find other accommodation forthwith.
▪ Citalia customers have been coming here for over 30 years and find simple accommodation and furnishings - fresh and spotlessly kept.
▪ Promising herself that she would explore it all properly later, she set off to find accommodation.
▪ These pressures are much greater among the young who are attempting to find their own accommodation for the first time.
▪ Senior mandarins had gone to the trouble of finding accommodation for Labour's promised Ministry for Women.
include
▪ Cost: $ 275 per person, double occupancy, including accommodations and some meals.
▪ The Census includes questions about living accommodation.
▪ They include accommodations at your choice of two YMCAs.
▪ The price, which includes accommodation, meals and all course literature, is £295 per person; £420 per couple.
▪ The trip includes airfare, accommodation, car rental and admission tickets to the golf course for all practice and match days.
▪ The booklet was criticised during its draft stages for including details of accommodation such a long distance away.
▪ Your holiday price includes transfers, accommodation and meals as shown in each hotel description.
live
▪ Intermediate indicator - to reduce the proportion of low income tenants living in substandard accommodation.
▪ Claimants will be discouraged from living in accommodation too large for their needs.
▪ The highest concentrations of divorced people living with parents are to be found among men whose parents live in local authority accommodation.
▪ Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
▪ Well, I live in sheltered accommodation and, believe me, I have to pay the full licence fee.
▪ Most lived within or near Camden or some lived as far away as Kiburn.all lived in Socially assisted accommodation.
▪ At present 68 live in accommodation intended for 55.
▪ Being compelled to live in accommodation not of one's own choosing.
move
▪ They were moved to different accommodation but claimed it was little better.
▪ Most of the firms affected were open for business on Monday morning; all had moved into temporary accommodation by mid-week.
offer
▪ The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings, and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.
▪ Middlesbrough woman Gwen Lamb was shocked to discover that anyone can offer residential accommodation to the most vulnerable in society.
▪ He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition.
▪ International Chapters offers flexible accommodation arrangements and will be happy to advise on alternative travel plans.
▪ We stayed in the Hotel du Bourg, which offers two-star accommodation on a bed-and-breakfast basis.
▪ Several can offer overnight accommodation to pilots socked-inn by weather.
pay
▪ One would be looking to the Navarrans to pay accommodation.
provide
▪ A wing was converted in keeping with the existing architecture of the hall to provide accommodation for families and disabled guests.
▪ Accommodation may be offered even if there is a person with parental responsibility able to provide accommodation for the child.
▪ This general power to provide accommodation on welfare grounds applies only to children under the age of 18 years.
▪ If your accommodation has to be changed we will do our best to provide alternative accommodation of similar or higher official classification.
▪ The rehabilitation unit provides accommodation for up to six weeks for elderly people discharged from hospital.
▪ The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons.
▪ The men had not a dry thread on their bodies; there was not a dugout that could provide dry accommodation.
▪ Mountain huts provide meals and accommodation around Oberalppass.
reach
▪ Full details of how to reach your accommodation will be sent in good time before your holiday is due to commence.
▪ Nixon and Reagan were quite adept at reaching accommodations with Congress.
▪ A will also be justified in reaching an accommodation with B rather than exercising his strict legal rights under the contract.
▪ The only alternative, therefore, is to reach an accommodation with the opposition.
▪ They could reach no sane accommodation about sharing and are, Kausmann reports, no longer together.
▪ Party leaders eventually reached accommodation with the insurgent lawmakers.
▪ Self-interest now propels both Clinton and Republican leaders in Congress to reach accommodation on issues that long have divided them.
▪ P officials after they were turned down, to see if they could reach some accommodation.
rent
▪ Students not in residential places usually rent accommodation or take lodgings in the city.
▪ As a result, they need to rent accommodation.
▪ The result, says Shelter, is that many asylum seekers are living in overcrowded private rented accommodation with friends and family.
▪ Private rented accommodation has been increasingly freed of rent control, taking it beyond the reach of the young homeless.
▪ Inevitably, therefore, the individual must usually rent accommodation rather than own a property.
▪ To bring up two children alone in rented accommodation is so difficult.
require
▪ I would therefore require the available accommodation in Warriston's Close during 1993/94 to accommodate probably 50 plus staff for this purpose.
▪ Concepts of oak trees and how they differ from other types of trees require assimilation and accommodation of relevant experience.
▪ The first indication that a person requires accommodation is through a request for a reservation.
▪ What is required is adequate special accommodation, along with the necessary health facilities.
▪ Also, should you require overnight accommodation don't leave the booking until the last minute.
▪ There are no high or low seasons for business people and they will often require their accommodation at short notice.
seek
▪ His strategy of seeking an accommodation with Labour was bitterly opposed by many Liberals.
▪ Try to alter her flight and go home tomorrow? Seek alternative accommodation somewhere, via the local tourist board maybe?
▪ The Service also operates as an agency which puts students seeking rented accommodation in touch with owners of vacant accommodation.
▪ The traveller may thereafter accept the terms of the offer, or reject them and seek accommodation elsewhere.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
▪ Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
▪ Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
▪ Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
▪ The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
▪ The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
▪ They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
▪ This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
sheltered accommodation/housing
▪ A regional study of difficult-to-let sheltered accommodation for older people Falshaw, Richard.
▪ Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
▪ For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
▪ Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
▪ The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
▪ The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
▪ We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
▪ With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Accommodations must be made for students with learning disabilities.
▪ I've been looking in the newspapers for student accommodation but it's all so expensive.
▪ The cost of rented accommodation keeps going up.
▪ The cost of the six-day trip includes meals and motel accommodations.
▪ The holiday costs about £400 for a week's accommodation and flights.
▪ The price includes flights, accommodation and transport.
▪ There needs to be more accommodation by both sides.
▪ You won't find any really luxurious accommodations, but there are adequate hotels and guest houses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Contrary to modem popular opinion these were splendid ships with excellent accommodation and many modern conveniences for both crew and passengers.
▪ He says the cost of building pensioner's accommodation on the site could rocket to £50,000 per unit.
▪ Her clients would be over the moon at the accommodation in this particular hotel.
▪ In fact, many of our guests ask for accommodations here each time they come.
▪ It appears to be about matters of accommodation and staffing.
▪ Some relocation policies exclude new recruits from receiving other allowances, such as travel and accommodation expenses.
▪ The subsidies could in fact be used for converting barns etc for accommodation, and for path building and maintainance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accommodation

Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]

  1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. ``The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.''
    --Sir M. Hale.

  2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

  3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. ``To come to terms of accommodation.''
    --Macaulay.

  5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

    Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
    --Paley.

  6. (Com.)

    1. A loan of money.

    2. An accommodation bill or note.

      Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit.

      Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations.

      Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accommodation

"room and provisions, lodging," c.1600, now usually plural (accommodations) and chiefly U.S.; from French accommodation, from Latin accommodationem (nominative accommodatio), noun of action from past participle stem of accommodare (see accommodate). Meaning "appliance, anything which affords aid" is from 1610s; that of "act of accommodating" is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
accommodation

n. 1 (senseid en lodging) (label en chiefly British usually a mass noun) lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc. 2 (label en physical) adaptation or adjustment. 3 # (label en countable uncountable followed by ''to'') The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. 4 # (label en countable uncountable) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

WordNet
accommodation
  1. n. making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances [syn: adjustment, fitting]

  2. a settlement of differences; "they reached an accommodation with Japan"

  3. in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

  4. living quarters provided for public convenience; "overnight accommodations are available"

  5. the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

  6. (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye

Wikipedia
Accommodation (eye)

Accommodation (Acc) is the process by which the vertebrate eye changes optical power to maintain a clear image or focus on an object as its distance varies. Distances vary for individuals from the far point—the maximum distance from the eye for which a clear image of an object can be seen, to the near point—the minimum distance from the eye for which a clear image of an object can be seen.

Accommodation acts like a reflex, but can also be consciously controlled. Mammals, birds and reptiles vary the optical power by changing the form of the elastic lens using the ciliary body (in humans up to 15 dioptres). Fish and amphibians vary the power by changing the distance between a rigid lens and the retina with muscles.

The young human eye can change focus from distance (infinity) to as near as 6.5 cm from the eye. This dramatic change in focal power of the eye of approximately 15 dioptres (the reciprocal of focal length in metres) occurs as a consequence of a reduction in zonular tension induced by ciliary muscle contraction. This process can occur in as little as 350 milliseconds . The amplitude of accommodation declines with age. By the fifth decade of life the accommodative amplitude can decline so that the near point of the eye is more remote than the reading distance. When this occurs the patient is presbyopic. Once presbyopia occurs, those who are emmetropic (do not require optical correction for distance vision) will need an optical aid for near vision; those who are myopic (nearsighted and require an optical correction for distance vision), will find that they see better at near without their distance correction; and those who are hyperopic (farsighted) will find that they may need a correction for both distance and near vision. Note that these effects are most noticeable when the pupil is large; i.e. in dim light. The age-related decline in accommodation occurs almost universally to less than 2 dioptres by the time a person reaches 45 to 50 years, by which time most of the population will have noticed a decrease in their ability to focus on close objects and hence require glasses for reading or bifocal lenses. Accommodation decreases to about 1 dioptre at the age of 70 years. The dependency of accommodation amplitude on age is graphically summarized by Duane’s classical curves.

Accommodation (law)

Accommodation is a legal obligation entered into as a gratuitous favor without consideration, such as a signature guaranteeing payment of a debt. This is sometimes called an accommodation endorsement.

Category:Contract law

Accommodation (religion)

Accommodation (or condescension) is the theological principle that God, while being in his nature unknowable and unreachable, has nevertheless communicated with humanity in a way which humans can understand and respond to. The concept is that scripture has accommodated, or made allowance for, the original audience's language and general level of understanding.

The 16th-century Protestant Reformer John Calvin is a key developer of the concept, in response to that century's discoveries in natural science, foremost Copernicus' theory of heliocentrism that conflicted with medieval theological traditions of reading the Bible "through geocentric spectacles". The concept of accommodation is thus an alternative method of Bible interpretation to the tradition of Biblical literalism. Literalism and an insistence on traditional Bible interpretation formed the basis for the Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of Galileo Galilei in the early 17th century.

Accommodation is not an innovation of the Reformation Period, but "has a long tradition of use within Judaism and subsequently within Christian theology, and can easily be shown to have been influential within the patristic period."

It appears almost contradictory that the Christian God, as revealed in the Bible, is often described in terms of his supreme transcendence and the inability of limited, finite man to comprehend and know the God who is unlimited and infinite – the contradiction being that even this knowledge can be known by humanity and recorded in scripture.

Although this may appear on the surface to be an illogicality, the status of the Christian God's unknowability is only true insofar as God acts not to reveal himself. In this line of thinking, no human being can ever hope to even understand or know God via their own powers of discernment. The principle of accommodation is that God has chosen to reveal aspects of himself to humanity in a way which humanity is able to understand.

This principle helps to underline other parts of Christian theology, especially the role of God in supervising the writing of the Bible. While the Bible itself claims that humans are limited and sinful and can make mistakes, God has nevertheless supervised the writing of the Bible to ensure that no mistakes were made. This belief was generally held throughout the historical Christian church, and is still held by evangelical and fundamentalist Christians today.

Accommodation

Accommodation may refer to:

  • A dwelling
  • A place of temporary lodging
  • Reasonable accommodation, a legal doctrine protecting religious minorities or people with disabilities
  • Accommodation (religion), a theological principle linked to divine revelation within the Christian church
  • Accommodation (law), a term used in United States contract law
  • Accommodation (eye), 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 Constructivism
  • 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 accommodation, the adaptation of text from the Bible to signify ideas different from those originally expressed
  • PS Accommodation was a pioneer Canadian steamboat built by John Molson

Usage examples of "accommodation".

Yet, in many of the plans and designs got up for his accommodation, in the books and publications of the day, all due convenience, to say nothing of the respectability or the elegance of domestic life, is as entirely disregarded as if such qualities had no connection with the farmer or his occupation.

It behooves, therefore, the American builder to examine well his premises, to ascertain the actual requirements of his farm or plantation, in convenience and accommodation, and build only to such extent, and at such cost as shall not impoverish his means, nor cause him future disquietude.

Altogether, these several apartments make a very complete and desirable accommodation to a man with the property and occupation for which it is intended.

The same sized house, with the same accommodation, may be made to cost fifty to one hundred per cent.

All such accommodation every farm house of this character should afford.

If farther attachments be required for the accommodation of out-building conveniences, they may be continued indefinitely in the rear.

It may, too, receive the same amount of outer decoration, in its shrubbery and plantations, given to any other style of building of like accommodation, and with an equally agreeable effect.

And as their due accommodation is to be the object of our present writing, a plan is presented for that object.

We shall, then, proceed at once to discuss their proper accommodation, in the cheapest and most familiar method with which we are acquainted.

With what experience we have had with the hog, and that by no means an agreeable one, we can devise no better method of accommodation than this here described, and it certainly is the cheapest.

If the dairy be of such extent as to require larger accommodation than the plan here suggested, a room or two may be partitioned off from the main milk and pressing-room, for washing the vessels and other articles employed, and for setting the milk.

Guard found their accommodation in a disused drying shed, where a fireplace provided a welcome warmth.

Unfortunately, no VIP accommodation remained available for the captain himself.

The town had an outer band of factories, similar to those that Mark had worked in back in Biewn, several condo-style accommodation blocks, and five sprawling housing estates.

As a vessel with no regular ports of call, with only very limited passenger accommodation and capacious cargo holds that were seldom far from full, the s.