Differentiation may refer to:

Business

Differentiation (economics) In economics and marketing, product differentiation (or simply differentiation) is the process of distinguishing a product or service from others to make it more attractive to a particular target market. This involves differentiating it from com ...

, 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 Cellular differentiation is the process in which a stem cell alters from one type to a differentiated one. Usually, the cell changes to a more specialized type. Differentiation happens multiple times during the development of a multicellular ...

, in biology * ''Differentiation'' (journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal covering cell differentiation and cell development *

Developmental biology Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of Regeneration (biology), regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and di ...

, the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop *

Differentiation therapy Differentiation therapy is a method to treating advanced cancers in which malignant cells are encouraged to differentiate into more mature forms using pharmacological agents. The basis of the therapy stems from the tendency of malignant tumor cell ...

, a cancer treatment in which malignant cells are encouraged to differentiate into more mature forms using pharmacological agents

Geology

Igneous differentiation In geology, igneous differentiation, or magmatic differentiation, is an umbrella term for the various processes by which magmas undergo bulk chemical change during the partial melting process, cooling, emplacement, or eruption. The sequence of (u ...

, in geology * Planetary differentiation, in planetary science and geology

Social sciences

, the process of making a product different from other similar products * Differentiation (ethnography), the invention of ostensible differences between cultures *

Differentiation (linguistics) Differentiation in semantics is defined by Löbner (2002) as a meaning shift reached by "adding concepts to the original concepts". His example is ''James Joyce is hard to understand'', where ''understand'' is differentiated from "perceiving the me ...

, 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 Inductive reasoning aptitude (also called differentiation or inductive learning ability) measures how well a person can identify a pattern within a large amount of data. It involves applying the rules of logic when inferring general principles fr ...

, in psychology

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

* Differentiation (mathematics), the process of finding a derivative *

Differentiated security Differentiated security is a form of computer security that deploys a range of different security policies and mechanisms according to the identity and context of a user or transaction. This makes it much more difficult to scale or replicate attac ...