functionalization

In linguistics, the process is generically called conversion or more specifically called functionalization.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010

Force 2000 The probability of duplicate gene preservation by sub-functionalization.

Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

In linguistics, the process is generically called conversion or more specifically called functionalization.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010

Stephan 2008 Evidence that strong positive selection drives neo-functionalization in the tandemly duplicated polyhomeotic genes in Drosophila.

Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

After non-functionalization, pseudogenes are free to acquire genetic noise in the form of random mutations.

Junk DNA, Linguistics and the scientific vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2007

To quote from a recent essay by one of these sages in a British periodical: "The functionalization and assimilation of superstructure and base in the framework of a hypostatized, bureaucratically planned economy — the Eastern variant of the one-dimensional society — thus removes the utopian transcendent content from false social consciousness."

Klugscheisser Huaco, George A. 1969

-- As we have seen, Scientific Management has as a basic idea the necessity of divided responsibility, or functionalization.

The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925

Note here, again, that it is the relative complexity or simplicity of the nature of the work that is to be done that determines the degree of its functionalization, not the number of men employed at the work.

The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925

Traditional Management we do find more or less spasmodic attempts at the functionalization of the worker.

The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925

The long job justifies the expenditure of money, effort and time by management and men, and is the ideal field for the application of scientific selection and functionalization.

The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925