acclimatization
- n adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment)
- A typical assault on Everest requires each climber to do as many as 10 traverses through the icefall, both for acclimatization .
- The 4ID has now landed in Kuwait, although acclimatization and marrying them up with their equipment may take up two weeks.
- A reverse cultural acclimatization is also under way, however, as growing numbers of former expatriates and Indians born and raised abroad begin to work in India.