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Differentiation (noun)
The act of differentiating.
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Differentiation (noun)
The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
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Differentiation (noun)
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.
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Differentiation (noun)
(geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
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Differentiation (noun)
The process of determining the derived function of a function.
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Integration (noun)
The act or process of making whole or entire.
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Integration (noun)
The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to ‘visible’ (ethnic, immigrant…) minorities
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Integration (noun)
The operation of finding the integral of a function.
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Integration (noun)
In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species’ development.
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Integration (noun)
The combination with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.