- the act or process of differentiating, or the state of being differentiated.
- the operation of finding the differential or derivative of a function.
- the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
- the act, process, or result of differentiating
- an operation used in calculus in which the derivative of a function or variable is determined; the inverse of integration
- any process in which a mixture of materials separates out partially or completely into its constituent parts, as in the cooling and solidification of a magma into two or more different rock types or in the gradual separation of an originally homogeneous earth into crust, mantle, and core
