noun ·Common ·High school level
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"The level of kinesthetic differentiations was established for every individual by using device called kinesthesiometer which allows testing in aquatic environment"
"Any hope that the pierines would help to define “the level at which r-K phenomena should be sought has been dashed: apparently species groups (or subgenera, or splitters' genera) are r- or K-selected in the holarctic, whereas in Tatochila the same amount of differentiation is found among populations in a complex in which the process of speciation has not yet been completed."
"The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to the fundamental biplicity of all advanced organization, its animal and its vegetative life."
"The math teacher explained the concept of partial differentiation."
The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).; 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.
Common synonyms include: distinction, specialization, account for individual differences, addition, alteration, analysis.
The math teacher explained the concept of partial differentiation.
Pronounced /dɪf.əˌɹɛn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/.
From differentiate + -ion, from different + -iate, from differ + -ent, from Middle English differen, from Old French differer, from Latin differō (“carry apart, put off, defer; differ”), from dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”); cognate with Ancient Greek διαφέρω (diaphérō, “to differ”).