under-accommodate

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1. medicineTo adjust the focal point of the eye so that the image of the target falls short of the retina.

   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.

   2000, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

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   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.

   1963, British journal of physiological optics

   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.

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

2. To inadequately accommodate; to fail to make enough adjustments or allowances to meet another's needs.

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

   2003, Labour arbitration cases, page 422

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   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.

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

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

   2017, Mike Allen, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, →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.

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