under-accommodate

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under-accommodate (third-person singular simple present under-accommodates, present participle under-accommodating, simple past and past participle under-accommodated)

1. (ophthalmology) To adjust the focal point of the eye so that the image of the target falls short of the retina.
   • 1963, British journal of physiological optics:

     The mean refractive error at six metres for the subjects was !-0.14D. and so the average total accommodation exerted was (0.14 + 2.51) 2.65D. for a dioptric distance of 3.0D. Thus, all of the observers under-accommodated for the near fixation distance when white light was used.

   • 1996, Mark T. Bolas, Scott S. Fisher, John O. Merritt -, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems, →ISBN:

     When Cegalis measured accommodative responses to changes in convergence distance caused by ophthalmic prisms, he found that although subjects initially under-accommodated the target, they quickly adapted for near target distances, with no significant after-effects.

   • 2000, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science:

     We have reported that defective accommodation is common in children with Down syndrome" even at 3 months of age;" that is, the children under-accommodate for near targets.

2. To inadequately accommodate; to fail to make enough adjustments or allowances to meet another's needs.
   • 2003, Labour arbitration cases, page 422:

     It is her job to neither over-accommodate nor under-accommodate the employees' needs.

   • 2012, Howard Giles, The Handbook of Intergroup Communication, →ISBN, page 254:

     Maintenance can occur when individuals resist change in communication. Physicians who believe that there is nothing that they can do if a cure is not possible may under-accommodate to patients with disabilities by indicating uneasiness, avoidance, and low rapport.

   • 2017, Mike Allen, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, →ISBN:

     Older adults are also found to under-accommodate young people's needs by being overly nurturing, disapproving their behaviors, or not listening.

   • 2018, Debra L. Worthington, Margaret E. Fitch-Hauser, Listening: Processes, Functions, and Competency, →ISBN:

     Sometimes we will under-accommodate or fail to appreciate, pay sufficient attention to, or be simply unwilling to take into account, the needs of the other party.