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

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

* Differentiation (economics), 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 m ...

, 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 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 ...