1. Living quarters provided for public convenience
   "the nearby hotel offers overnight accommodation"
    
2. The act of providing something (lodging, seat or food) to meet a need
   "The hotel offered accommodation for all conference attendees"
    
3. A settlement of differences
   "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
    
4. Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
   "The new employee required some time for accommodation to the company culture";
   - adjustment, fitting
    
5. (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
   "The eye's accommodation allows us to focus on objects at varying distances"
    
6. In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
   "The child's accommodation to new information allowed for cognitive growth"

Derived forms: accommodations

Type of: adjustment, advance, aid, alteration, assist, assistance, betterment, developmental learning, help, improvement, living quarters, modification, quarters, settlement

Encyclopedia: Accommodation, ocular