Accommodation

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Accommodation may refer to:

• Accommodation (in British usage) or accommodations (in American usage) is lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
• Accommodation (religion), a theological principle linked to divine revelation within the Christian church
• accommodation (law), a term used in United States contract law
  • Accommodation Bill, a bill of exchange
• Accommodation (eye), the sense in ophthalmology
• Accommodation (physiology), process of changes in bodily function due to repeated exposure to drugs or toxins
• Accommodation (psychology), the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences according to Jean Piaget (see also assimilation)
• Communication Accommodation Theory, the process by which people change their language behaviour to be more or less similar to that of the people with whom they are interacting.
• Accommodation is a linguistics term meaning grammatical acceptance of unstated values as in Accommodation of presuppositions
• Biblical Accommodation is the adaptation of text from the Bible to signify ideas different from those originally expressed.
• Accommodation (education) are modifications made in the classroom to assist a child with a disability

it may also include resorts, hotels, backpacker hostels, b&b's etc. Technology It may also refer to

• Accommodation was a pioneer Canadian steamboat built by John Molson