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English noun: differentiation | |||
| 1. | differentiation (cognition) a discrimination between things as different and distinct | ||
| Samples | It is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation. | ||
| Synonyms | distinction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | discrimination, secernment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | contradistinction, contrast, demarcation, dividing line, hairsplitting, line, word-splitting | ||
| 2. | differentiation (act) the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation | ||
| 3. | differentiation (process) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | ||
| Samples | Cell differentiation in the developing embryo. | ||
| Synonyms | specialisation, specialization | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | adaptation, adaption, adjustment | ||
| Domain category | biological science, biology | ||
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