differentiation

See also Differentiation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

differentiation (uncountable)

1. The act of differentiating.
2. The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
3. 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.
4. (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
5. (calculus) The process of determining the derived function of a function.

Derived terms

• cellular differentiation
• evolutionary differentiation
• planetary differentiation

Related terms

• differ
• difference
• different
• differentiate
• differential

Translations

act of differentiating

• Bulgarian: раличаване (bg) (raličavane) n
• Estonian: eristamine (et)
• Finnish: erilaistuminen, erilaistaminen, differentioituminen,differointi
• French: différentiation (fr) f
• German: Unterscheidung (de) f
• Greek: διαφοροποίηση (el) (diaforopoíisi) f

• Hebrew: הבדלה (havdala) f
• Italian: differenziazione (it) f
• Jèrriais: difféthentiâtion f
• Romanian: diferențiere (ro)
• Russian: разделение (razdelénije) n; разграничение (razgraničénije) n; дифференциация (differentsiátsija) f
• Turkish: farklılaştırma (tr), türev (tr)

act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference

• Bulgarian: разграничаване (bg) (razgraničavane) n, разграничение (bg) (razgraničenie) n
• Danish: differentiering (da)
• Estonian: eristamine (et)
• Finnish: erittely
• French: différenciation (fr)
• German: Differenzierung (de), Unterscheidung (de) f

• Greek: αντιδιαστολή (el) (antidiastolí) f
• Japanese: 区別 (ja)
• Jèrriais: difféthentiâtion f
• Norwegian: differensiering (no)
• Russian: разграничение (ru) (razgraničénije) n
• Swedish: differentiering (sv)

gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development

• Bulgarian: видоизменение (bg) (vidoizmenenie) n
• Finnish: erilaistuminen
• German: Differenzierung (de) f

• Japanese: 分化 (ja)
• Russian: дифференцировка (differentsiróvka) f

separation of magma

• Finnish: erkaantuminen

in analysis

• Bulgarian: диференциране (bg) (diferencirane) n
• Finnish: derivoiminen (fi), derivointi (fi)
• French: différentiation f
• German: Differentiation f, Differenziation f
• Greek: διαφοροποίηση (el) (diaforopiesi) f
• Italian: differenziazione (it) f
• Japanese: 微分 (ja)

• Jèrriais: difféthentiâtion f
• Polish: różniczkowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: diferenciação (pt) f
• Russian: дифференцирование (differentsírovanije) n
• Spanish: diferenciación (es) f
• Swedish: derivering (sv) c, differentiering (sv) c

See also

• Differentiation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia