Adoption (IPA: /əˈdɑpʃən/)
| Adoption (n.) |
The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. |
| Adoption (n.) |
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. |
| Adoption (n.) |
The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. |
| Adoption |
Process whereby a person assumes the parenting for a child born by other parents |
| Adoption |
Process by which a bill obtains parliamentary approval and becomes law |
| Adoption |
In farming and cattle raising |
| Adoption |
Software implementation |
| Adoption |
In Christian theology, the admission of a believer into the family of God |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " The adoption of the Precise Action Semantics for the Unified Modeling Language specification by the OMG in November of 2001" - Executable UML |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know." - Ryan C. Gordon |
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