specialization
Americannoun
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the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work.
Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
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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.
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the act of being restricted to some specific, or the act of becoming specialized.
Other Word Forms
- despecialization noun
- nonspecialization noun
- subspecialization noun
- superspecialization noun
Etymology
Origin of specialization
Example Sentences
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This method was a frontal assault on the “divide and conquer” mentality, which used to mean specialization followed by integration.
The population is too small to support many medical specializations, such as kidney transplants.
In most of these tissues, repair happens through the activation and specialization of stem cells.
From Science Daily
It prevents true specialization, limits the impact of technology, and produces backlogs we should not sustain,” Sriubus wrote in a memo, according to the Federal News Network report.
From MarketWatch
The evidence suggests avoiding early specialization in a single field.
From Science Daily
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