penyesuaian

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed suai +‎ peng- -an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəɲəsuˈai̯an/
• Rhymes: -an, -n
• Hyphenation: pê‧nyê‧su‧ai‧an

Noun

pênyêsuaian (plural penyesuaian-penyesuaian, first-person possessive penyesuaianku, second-person possessive penyesuaianmu, third-person possessive penyesuaiannya)

1. adjustment:
   1. the action of adjusting something.
   2. (accounting) the settling or balancing of a financial account.
2. adaptation
   1. (art) the process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium; an artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
   2. (biology) the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness; a state reached by the population during that process; phenotypic trait or adaptive trait, with a functional role in each individual organism, that is maintained and has evolved through natural selection.
3. acclimatization, acclimatisation
4. conditioning
5. reconditioning

Synonyms

• (adjustment): inpassing
• (acclimatization/acclimatisation): aklimatisasi
• (accounting): ڤلارسن (penyelarasan) (Standard Malay)
• (arts, biology): adaptasi
• (conditioning): pengondisian
• (reconditioning): pemulihan

Further reading

• “penyesuaian” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.