differentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪf.əˌɹɛn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌdɪf.əˌɹɛn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /dɪf.əˌɹen.ʃiˈæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /dəf.əˌɹen.ʃiˈæɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: differentiations
Etymology: From differentiate + -ion, from different + -iate, from differ + -ent, from Middle English differen, from Old French differer, from Latin differō (“carry apart, put off, defer; differ”), from dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”); cognate with Ancient Greek διαφέρω (diaphérō, “to differ”).
Senses: examples: text: The level of kinesthetic differentiations was established for every individual by using device called kinesthesiometer which allows testing in aquatic environment
ref: 2011, Zukow Walery, Skaliy Aleksander, Napierala Marek, State, prospects and development of rescue, physical culture and sports in the XXI century, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: 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.
glosses: The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
The process of developing distinct components.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Any hope that the pierines would help to define “the level at which r-K phenomena should be sought has been dashed: apparently species groups (or subgenera, or splitters' genera) are r- or K-selected in the holarctic, whereas in Tatochila the same amount of differentiation is found among populations in a complex in which the process of speciation has not yet been completed.
ref: 2012, Fritz Taylor, The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles, page 156:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: evolution
glosses: 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.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
examples: text: The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to the fundamental biplicity of all advanced organization, its animal and its vegetative life.
ref: 1878, Edmund Montgomery, “Monera, and the problem of life”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume XIII, page 680:
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
Derived terms: antidifferentiation
anti-differentiation
autodifferentiation
automatic differentiation
cellular differentiation
chemodifferentiation
chondrodifferentiation
cluster of differentiation
codifferentiation
cytodifferentiation
dedifferentiation
differentiational
differentiation syndrome
dysdifferentiation
enantiodifferentiation
erythrodifferentiation
evolutionary differentiation
histodifferentiation
indifferentiation
maldifferentiation
microdifferentiation
misdifferentiation
morphodifferentiation
multidifferentiation
myodifferentiation
neurodifferentiation
nondifferentiation
organodifferentiation
osteodifferentiation
overdifferentiation
planetary differentiation
postdifferentiation
predifferentiation
prodifferentiation
product differentiation
proto-differentiation
redifferentiation
retrodifferentiation
self-differentiation
semantic differentiation
subdifferentiation
transdifferentiation
undifferentiation
Related terms: differ
difference
different
differentiate
differential