specialization
the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
Biology. the adaptation of an organism or organ to a special function or environment: Basic biology suggests the selective pressures leading to convergent evolutionary specialization among desert-dwelling species.
the act of being restricted to some specific, or the act of becoming specialized.
Origin of specialization
1- Also especially British, spe·cial·i·sa·tion .
Other words from specialization
- de·spe·cial·i·za·tion, noun
- non·spe·cial·i·za·tion, noun
- sub·spe·cial·i·za·tion, noun
- su·per·spe·cial·i·za·tion, noun
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How to use specialization in a sentence
Similar specializations are of frequent occurrence in the history even of scientific nomenclature.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillLong tail and long hind foot would seem to be specializations for saltation and the two would be expected to be correlated.
Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii | Henry W. SetzerAnyone who thinks carefully can add numberless specializations for food getting.
The Meaning of Evolution | Samuel Christian SchmuckerThe evolution of the animal kingdom is along multifarious lines and by diverse specializations.
On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data | J. W. PowellThe specializations of these topics are for the specialists; their interaction concerns man as a being whose experience is social.
Democracy and Education | John Dewey
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