differentiation

Nouns

  • (n) a discrimination between things as different and distinct
    • it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation
    distinction,
  • (n) the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function
  • (n) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
    • cell differentiation in the developing embryo
    specialisation, specialization,

Synonyms

distinction specialisation specialization

Words of close approximity