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differentiation

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/dif-er-en-shee-ay-shun/Word FrequencyCommon (4.19)Curriculum FrequencyLess common (1)

The act of differentiating.

In a Sentence

The article includes differentiation to support a careful argument.

Published Usage Examples

And that's why the term differentiation has acquired a negative connotation.

The Lib Dems are now all pretty much agreed that they need to be more aggressive about what they call "differentiation": showing the voters that they are not and never will be Tories, and exposing some of the coalition's internal battles to daylight in order to prove it to the voters.

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Origin

From Latin 'differentia', meaning 'difference'.

Common Phrases

. differentiationbetween differentiationamong differentiationdifferentiation productdifferentiation celldifferentiation socialdifferentiation sexual

Poetry examples for differentiation

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