Dictionary definition for: Differentiation
1. (n) a discrimination between things as different and distinct; "it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation"
2. (n) the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function
3. (n) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo"
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