accommodation vs adaptation

accommodation

noun
  • The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. 

  • The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. 

  • The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object. 

  • Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 

  • An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted. 

  • The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation. 

  • A loan of money. 

  • A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. 

  • Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc. 

  • An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness. 

  • An accommodation bill or note. 

  • Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. 

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

  • Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. 

adaptation

noun
  • The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification. 

  • A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment. 

  • An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed. 

  • An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium. 

  • The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments. 

  • The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium. 

  • The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment. 

How often have the words accommodation and adaptation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )