Accommodation

Accommodation (from the Latin accommodare "adapt", "adapt", "create", "fix") denotes:

in physiology:

Accommodation (eye) , the focusing of the eye
Accommodation (bowel) , the ability of the appendix, ascending colon, and rectum to store stool of varying sizes without increasing intraluminal pressure
Bladder compliance , the ability of the bladder to adapt to increasing amounts of urine due to a lower permanent tone of the detrusor
Accommodation (stomach) , the ability of the stomach to adjust its volume to that of the food ingested
Accommodation (kidney) , the ability of the kidney to produce an osmolality in the terminal urine that differs from that of the primary urine
Accommodation (cell membrane) , the ability of the cell membrane not to trigger an action potential due to a peculiarity of the fast, voltage-dependent sodium channels when the depolarization voltage increases slowly

in linguistics:

in phonology : a class of similarities between speech sounds, see assimilation (phonology)
In semantics : indexing and tacit addition of information that is missing for understanding, see presupposition
in sociolinguistics : adaptation of two speakers with different dialectal varieties, see accommodation (linguistics)

otherwise also:

Accommodation (learning psychology) , the adaptation of a cognitive scheme to new experiences
Accommodation (religion) , the adaptation of a newly introduced religion to the social conditions found

See also:

Wiktionary: Accommodation - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations