differentiation
IPA: dɪfɝɛnʃiˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
- The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
- The process of developing distinct components.
- (biology) The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.
- (biology, evolution) The evolutionary process by which one taxonomic group (species, genus, variety, etc.) becomes distinct from another, or acquires distinct features; the result of such a process: distinctness.
- (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
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Examples of "differentiation" in Sentences
- Is this the reason for the differentiation
- It is the counterpart to the chain rule of differentiation.
- My hunch would be, that that differentiation is significant.
- The arbitrariness of the order of differentiation implies that.
- And that's why the term differentiation has acquired a negative connotation.
- But rather because the students strive for some kind of differentiation from the majority.
- The deduced order of differentiation is manifestly driven by the reduction of translation errors.
- Product differentiation is on the software side, so this would be tough for a great manufacturer like Dell.
- That kind of differentiation is increasingly key in a market that relies for its appeal as much on services as it does on hardware.
- Here, an asymmetric pattern typical of differentiation is uncovered in the partition of the codon repertoire, as defined by the mechanism of aminoacylation of each corresponding tRNA.
- If their differentiation is disrupted by an early end to the pregnancy, then your body is no longer producing the correct hormonal signals to guide them to complete the differentiation process.
- This traditional Canadian aversion to what many of us call "differentiation" is an additional impediment to a healthy, vibrant and internationally competitive Canadian system of higher education.
- The Lib Dems are now all pretty much agreed that they need to be more aggressive about what they call "differentiation": showing the voters that they are not and never will be Tories, and exposing some of the coalition's internal battles to daylight in order to prove it to the voters.
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