Accommodation may refer to: * A dwelling * 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 reasonable accommodation is an adjustment made in a system to accommodate or make fair the same system for an individual based on a proven need. That need can vary. Accommodations can be religious, physical, mental or emotional, academic, physic ...

, 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 sur ...

, the space available for sedimentation * Accommodation (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 Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates th ...

services * Communication accommodation theory, 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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