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==Names== The nouns ''[[wikt:acclimatization#Noun|acclimatization]]'' and ''[[wikt:acclimation#Noun|acclimation]]'' (and the corresponding verbs ''[[wikt:acclimatize#Verb|acclimatize]]'' and ''[[wikt:acclimate#Verb|acclimate]]'') are widely regarded as [[synonym]]ous,<ref name="OxfordDictionaries">{{Citation |author=Oxford Dictionaries |author-link=OxfordDictionaries.com |title=Oxford Dictionaries Online |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010516042450/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 16, 2001 |postscript=.}}</ref><ref name="MW_Collegiate">{{Citation |author=Merriam-Webster |author-link=Merriam-Webster |title=Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-Webster |url=http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/collegiate/ |postscript=. |access-date=January 31, 2017 |archive-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010163505/https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/subscriber/login?redirect_to=%2Fcollegiate%2F |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="MWU">{{Citation |author=Merriam-Webster |author-link=Merriam-Webster |title=Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-Webster |url=http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/unabridged/ |postscript=. |access-date=January 31, 2017 |archive-date=May 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525084504/https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/subscriber/login?redirect_to=%2Funabridged%2F |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="AHD">{{Citation |author=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |title=The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |url=https://ahdictionary.com/ |postscript=. |access-date=2017-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925104737/https://ahdictionary.com/ |archive-date=2015-09-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Dorlands">{{Citation |author=Elsevier |author-link=Elsevier |title=Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary |publisher=Elsevier |url=http://dorlands.com/ |postscript=.}}</ref><ref name="Stedmans">{{Citation |author=Wolters Kluwer |author-link=Wolters Kluwer |title=Stedman's Medical Dictionary |publisher=Wolters Kluwer |url=http://stedmansonline.com/ |postscript=.}}</ref> both in general vocabulary<ref name="OxfordDictionaries"/><ref name="MW_Collegiate"/><ref name="MWU"/><ref name="AHD"/> and in medical vocabulary.<ref name="Dorlands"/><ref name="Stedmans"/> The synonym ''[[wikt:acclimation#Noun|acclimation]]''<ref name="MWU"/><ref name="Dorlands"/> is less commonly encountered, and fewer dictionaries enter it.
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