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Definition: Specialisation |
SpecialisationNoun1. The structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo". 2. The act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose. 3. The special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "specialisation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
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Computing | Specialisation A reduction in generality, usually for the sake of increased efficiency. If a piece of code is specialised for certain values of certain variables (usually function arguments), this is known as "partial evaluation". In a language with overloading (e.g. Haskell), an overloaded function might be specialised to a non-overloaded instance at compile-time if the types of its arguments are known. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: SpecialisationSynonyms: differentiation (n), specialism (n), speciality (n), specialization (n), specialty (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Specialisation |
| Specialty definitions using "specialisation": class hierarchy, comparative advantage, comparative cost, control inference engine ♦ learning from uncertain conditions ♦ theatre sister. (references) |
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| "Specialisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Specialisation" is used about 249 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 249 | 18,850 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "specialisation": over-specialisation. | |
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| Language | Translations for "specialisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ä¸"业化 (specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | specialisering (specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | specialisatie (specialization), differentiatie (differentiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | erikoistuminen (specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spécialisation (specialization, specializing), vide NG, orientation, option. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spezialisierung (specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ειδίκευση (specialism, specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | specializzazione (major, specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ì „ë¬¸í™" (specialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecialisationspay especialização (specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty). (various references) especialización (expertise, specialization). (various references) specialisering (specialism, specialization, specializing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "specialisation": specialisations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: speciational. | |
-3 letters: capitalises, captionless, escalations, italianises, plasticines, politicians, politicises, socialities, speciations. | |
-4 letters: actionless, analeptics, anapestics, antipolice, antisocial, apostacies, capitalise, caseations, ciliations, cisplatins, coastlines, colpitises, epilations, escalation, isopiestic, italianise, italicises, lanosities, nasalities, neoplasias, neoplastic, passionate, pilosities, placations, plasticine, pleonastic, plications, politician, politicise, salacities, salinities, scapolites, sectionals, sincipital, socialites, specialist, speciation. | |
-5 letters: alienists, alopecias, alpinists, analcites. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: specialisations, specializations. | |
+5 letters: overspecializations, superspecialization. | |
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