title: Accommodation
text: # Accommodation
  
  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 legal doctrine protecting religious minorities or people with disabilities
  * Accommodation (religion), a theological principle linked to divine revelation within the Christian church
  * Accommodationism, a judicial interpretation with respect to Church and state issues
  * Accommodation bridge, a bridge provided to re-connect private land, separated by a new road or railway
  * Accommodation (law), a term used in US contract law
  * Accommodation (geology), 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
  * Accommodations, a technique for education-related disabilities in special education 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
  