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- Differentiation - n. - The act of differentiating.
- Differentiation - n. - The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
- Differentiation - n. - 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.
- Differentiation - n. - The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.
- Gonochorism - n. - In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.
- Derivation - n. - The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
- Structured - a. - Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.
- Undifferentiated - a. - Not differentiated; specifically (Biol.), homogenous, or nearly so; -- said especially of young or embryonic tissues which have not yet undergone differentiation (see Differentiation, 3), that is, which show no visible separation into their different structural parts.
- Integration - n. - In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.