Accommodation may refer to: * A

dwelling In law, a dwelling (also known as a residence or an abode) is a self-contained unit of accommodation used by one or more households as a home - such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat, vehicle, or other "substantial" structure. The ...

* A place for temporary lodging * The technique of adaptation to local cultures that the Jesuits used in their missions to spread Christianity among non-Christian peoples. * Reasonable accommodation, a legal doctrine protecting religious minorities or people with disabilities *

Accommodation (religion) Accommodation (or condescension) is the theological principle that God, while being in His nature unknowable and unreachable, has nevertheless communicated with humanity in a way that humans can understand and to which they can respond. The concept ...

, a theological principle linked to divine revelation within the Christian church *

Accommodationism In law and philosophy, accommodationism is the co-existence of religion with rationalism or irreligion. It may be applied to government practice or to society more broadly. Accommodationist policies are common in liberal democracies as a method of g ...

, a judicial interpretation with respect to Church and state issues *

Accommodation bridge In the United Kingdom, an accommodation bridge or occupation bridge is one that preserves a pre-existing private road, path or right of access when a major transport route is built across it. Without the bridge, access would be disrupted. Accom ...

, a bridge provided to re-connect private land, separated by a new road or railway *

Accommodation (law) Accommodation is a legal obligation entered into as a gratuitous favor without consideration, such as a signature guaranteeing payment of a debt Debt is an obligation that requires one party, the debtor, to pay money or other agreed-upo ...

, a term used in US contract law *

Accommodation (geology) Accommodation is a fundamental concept in sequence stratigraphy, a subdiscipline of geology. It is defined as the space that is available for the deposition of sediments. Accommodation space can be pictured as the volume between the actual su ...

, the space available for sedimentation *

Accommodation (eye) Accommodation is the process by which the vertebrate eye changes optical power to maintain a clear image or focus on an object as its distance varies. In this, distances vary for individuals from the far point—the maximum distance from the eye ...

, the process by which the eye increases optical power to maintain a clear image (focus) on an object as it draws near * Accommodation in psychology, the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences according to Jean Piaget, in the learning broader theory of

Constructivism Constructivism may refer to: Art and architecture * Constructivism (art), an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes * Constructivist architecture, an architectural movement in Russia in the 1920s a ...

* Accommodations, a technique for education-related disabilities in special education services *

Communication accommodation theory Communication accommodation theory (CAT) is a theory of communication developed by Howard Giles. This theory concerns "(1) the behavioral changes that people make to attune their communication to their partner, (2) the extent to which people perce ...

, the process by which people change their language behavior to be more or less similar to that of the people with whom they are interacting * Accommodation, a linguistics term meaning grammatical acceptance of unstated values as in accommodation of presuppositions * Biblical accommodation, the adaptation of text from the Bible to signify ideas different from those originally expressed * PS ''Accommodation'', a pioneer Canadian steamboat built by John Molson

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