{{wiktionary|Differentiation|differentiation|differentiate|undifferentiated}} '''Differentiation''' may refer to:
{{tocright}} ==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
==Science, technology, and mathematics== ===Biology and medicine=== * 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
===Geology=== * Igneous differentiation, in geology * Planetary differentiation, in planetary science and geology
===Social sciences=== * 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
===Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics=== * 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
==See also== * Difference (disambiguation) * Different (disambiguation) * Differentiation of measures (disambiguation) * Differential (disambiguation) * {{look from}} * {{in title}} * {{look from|Undiffer}}: includes undifferentiation and undifferentiated (mostly used in biological or medical terms)
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