accommodation

1. In community organization, the ability of one group to modify aspects of its culture to deal better with other groups or aspects of the environment. 2. In health care and geriatrics, a property of visual perception in which the lens of the eye is able to change its shape to permit focusing on objects at different distances from the observer. 3. In developmental and Piagetian theory, a person's growing ability to modify current thought structure to deal with new or newly perceived features of the environment.