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/dɪfərˌɛnʃiˈeɪʃən/ /dˌɪfərˌɛntʃiˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Differentiation n.

The act of differentiating. "Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of the meaning of such of these roots as are real roots."

(Logic) The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.

(Biol.) 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.

(Metaph.) The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.

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Etymology of 'Differentiation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Differentiation" Quotes from Famous Books

... county moulded and sustained local feeling during the generations when local government and local initiative were dying elsewhere; it has preserved a sort of aristocratic independence, the survival of custom, and the differentiation of the State. ...

— On Something • H. Belloc

... and grounded in the institutions of the land, and has entrenched itself in the strongholds of Church and State, fashion, custom, and social life. And yet when I was in the South, I saw on every hand a growing differentiation towards the Government." ...

— Minnie's Sacrifice • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

... in which there may be considerable differentiation. These often occur in masses of considerable size, forming jelly-like lumps, which may be soft or quite firm (Fig. 7, A, B). They are sometimes found on damp ground, but more commonly attached ...

— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell

... abstract thought we have Spinozism, for in Spinozism subjectivity is not yet differentiated from substantiality, from substance as such. But in the presupposition just made there is also this thought—God is spirit, absolute and eternal; spirit which comes not forth from itself in differentiation. This ideality, this subjectivity of spirit, which is transparency, ideality excluding all particular determination, is precisely the universal, pure relation to self, Being which remains absolutely ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... the determination of the American people that regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business. In recent years we have established a differentiation in the whole method of business regulation between the industries which produce and distribute commodities on the one hand and public utilities on the other. In the former, our laws insist upon effective competition; in the latter, ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

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