dark adaptation

1. 1.

   the process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hours

   Broaderadaptation

Questions about dark adaptation

What does dark adaptation mean?

dark adaptation means "the process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hours".

Is dark adaptation a common word?

dark adaptation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.