differentiation
differentiation is a 15-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of differentiating. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of differentiating.
- noun. The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.
- noun. the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function
- noun. a discrimination between things as different and distinct
"it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation"
- noun. (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
"cell differentiation in the developing embryo"
Synonyms
distinction, specialisation, specialization
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