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n. The act or process of differentiating.

n. The state of becoming differentiated.

n. Mathematics The process of computing a derivative.

n. Biology The process by which cells or tissues undergo a change toward a more specialized form or function, especially during embryonic development.

n. The act of differentiating.

n. The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.

n. The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.

n. The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.

n. The process of determining the derived function of a function.

n. The act of differentiating.

n. The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.

n. The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.

n. The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.

n. The formation of differences or the discrimination of varieties.

n. Specifically Any change by which something homogeneous is made heterogeneous, or like things are made unlike; especially, in biology, the evolutionary process or result by which originally indifferent parts or organs become differentiated or specialized in either form or function; structural or functional modification; specialization.

n. In logic, discrimination; the act of distinguishing things according to their respective differences.

n. In mathematics, the operation of finding the differential or differential coefficient of any function.

n. In geology, the general process by which a parent mass of molten rock of intermediate composition, standing in a reservoir for long periods of time, breaks up or differentiates into several fractional derivatives both more acidic and more basic.

n. a discrimination between things as different and distinct

n. (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function

n. the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function

"And that's why the term differentiation has acquired a negative connotation."

adjustment    adaption    adaptation    operation    mathematical process    mathematical operation   

induced differentiation    explicit differentiation    implicit differentiation    magmatic differentiation    total differentiation    law of differentiation    direct differentiation    inherent differentiation    partial differentiation    logarithmic differentiation   

different    difference    differ    differential    differentiate   

planetary differentiation    cellular differentiation    evolutionary differentiation   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

maturation    proliferation    activation    apoptosis    migration    modification    homeostasis    adhesion    necrosis    precursor