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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See specialization, specialize.

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  • noun British Alternative spelling of specialization.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose
  • noun the special line of work you have adopted as your career
  • noun (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function

Etymologies

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specialise +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • Judging by the numerous conferences and reseller functions I've attended that have put this topic first on the schedule, the term specialisation can largely be taken as vendor-speak for channel partners capable of going deeper into a technology area, a market area or a services area.

    ITP.net - Front Page 2009

  • Judging by the numerous conferences and reseller functions I've attended that have put this topic first on the schedule, the term specialisation can largely be taken as vendor-speak for channel partners capable of going deeper into a technology area, a market area or a services area.

    ITP.net - Front Page 2009

  • The good doctor (his specialisation is dentistry, by the way - never thought we'd say nce things about a dentist) goes on to sayWe share all these as a gift to build better friends across the border and hope to shed the image of hatred and violence and give way to a peaceful co-existence between to lovely nations.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • The drive for specialisation is driven by the concern for jobs, and while the specialist may be good at one thing, industry and professions need students with a broad background.

    Are we educated? Jonathan 2005

  • The drive for specialisation is driven by the concern for jobs, and while the specialist may be good at one thing, industry and professions need students with a broad background.

    Archive 2005-01-01 Jonathan 2005

  • His area of specialisation is climate change, which isn’t a field that is short of sceptics.

    Sceptism is admirable, if it’s informed « Gin&Comment 2008

  • This process of customising a machine for a particular input to slot A is called specialisation or partial evaluation.

    Planet Haskell 2009

  • Businesses in the west, however, have been hooked on the concept of '' specialisation '' and that means competency dependence is rife.

    unknown title 2009

  • There is a tendency with all such groups to view their area of specialisation as an end in itself, whereas I've always believed that good writing should be a means to an end.

    MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2) 2009

  • For example, a very sound (and exceedingly efficient) system of science education I had seen, is for the general science course to be split up into three sections (physics, bio, chem) corresponding to the three terms, and have each be taught by a different teacher with a different specialisation, as opposed to a science generalist.

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions 2009

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