Differentiation

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Differentiation may refer to:

Business

Differentiation (economics), the process of making a product different from other similar products
Product differentiation, in marketing
Differentiated service, a service that varies with the identity of the consumer or the context in which the service is used

Cellular differentiation, in biology
Differentiation (journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal covering cell differentiation and cell development
Developmental biology, the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop
Differentiation therapy, a cancer treatment in which malignant cells are encouraged to differentiate into more mature forms using pharmacological agents

Differentiation (economics), the process of making a product different from other similar products
Differentiation (ethnography), the invention of ostensible differences between cultures
Differentiation (linguistics), in semantics, a meaning shift reached by "adding concepts to the original concepts"
Differentiation (sociology), a feature of modern society, and way of dealing with complexity
Differentiated instruction, in education
Inductive reasoning aptitude, in psychology

Differentiation (mathematics), the process of finding a derivative
Differentiated security, a form of computer security that deploys different security policies and mechanisms according to the identity and context of a user or transaction