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Differentiated   /dˌɪfərˈɛnʃiˌeɪtɪd/  /dˌɪfərˈɛntʃiˌeɪtəd/   Listen
Differentiated

adjective
1.
Made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different.  "The regionally differentiated results"
2.
Exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment.


Differentiate

verb
1.
Mark as different.  Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart.
2.
Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense.  Synonyms: distinguish, mark.
3.
Calculate a derivative; take the derivative.
4.
Become different during development.
5.
Evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment.  Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate.
6.
Become distinct and acquire a different character.





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"Differentiated" Quotes from Famous Books



... susceptibility, as well as a starting point of associations. (1) Touch is the fundamental and generic sense, the first born of sensibility, from which, in the view of evolution, all others take their rise. (2) Even after the remaining senses are differentiated, the primary sense continues to be a leading susceptibility of the mind. The soft, warm touch, if not a first-class influence, is at least an approach to that. The combined power of soft contact and warmth amounts to a considerable pitch of massive pleasure; while there may ...
— A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes • Sanford Bell
... before the races of men had differentiated, a remnant of mankind was driven, by some great event, into a cave; all kinds of animals had sought shelter in. the same place; something—the Drift—had closed up the mouth of the cavern; the men subsisted on ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... so violent and tumultuous as to shake the body, and be noticed when standing near the animal. The heart sounds are louder than normal and the pulse beats small and irregular. It may be differentiated from spasm of the diaphragm by determining the relationship of the heart beats to the abrupt shocks observed in the costal and ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.
... point of view, with incidents of ordinary life. This naturally admits of the widest possible diversity of subject: indeed it is only by sticking to the condition of "ordinary life" that the fabliau can be differentiated from the short romance on one side and the allegoric beast-fable on the other. Even as it is, its most recent editors have admitted among their 157 examples not a few which are simple jeux d'esprit on the things of humanity, and others which are in ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury
... the struggle for existence is but slightly differentiated from that which obtains among the other animals. It is the brutal struggle for daily food or for possession of the females—hunger and love are, in fact, the two fundamental needs and the two poles of life—and almost its only method is ...
— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri


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