differentiation
The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
Other meanings
The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
The process of developing distinct components.
Synonyms
- distinction
Related words
- antidifferentiation
- autodifferentiation
- chemodifferentiation
- chondrodifferentiation
- codifferentiation
- cytodifferentiation
- dedifferentiation
- differentiational
- dysdifferentiation
- enantiodifferentiation
- erythrodifferentiation
- histodifferentiation
Word history
From Latin "differō" (carry apart, put off, defer; differ).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “differentiation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.