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noun
- the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes
- metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals
- a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner
- (functional programming) A generalization of the list-producing unfolds known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as final coalgebras.
noun
- the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes
- a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner
- The use of this kind of image distortion.
- A distorted image of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror.
- (mycology, lichenology) An abnormal form of some lichens or fungi that gives the appearance of a different species.
- (biology) A form of limited metamorphosis in some arthropods.
noun
- the evolution of a biological species
- (taxonomy) The process by which new distinct species evolve.
- (medicine, pathology) The determination of which species are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.
- (chemistry) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
noun
- (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
- A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
- (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
- (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
verb
- repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- summarize briefly
- (transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
- (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.
- (transitive, biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- (evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
- (colloquial, sometimes offensive) A process by which poor individual choices or attributes naturally, or rightfully, lead to poor outcomes, especially death.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- a passage selected from a larger work
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- something that survives
- a state of surviving; remaining alive
- (as a modifier) Of, relating to or aiding survival.
- (anthropology) A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.
- The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
- (sports) The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.
noun
- (biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.
- (medicine) The process of maturating, or suppurating fully.
- The process of becoming mature.
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
- coming to full development; becoming mature
noun
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
adj
verb
- undergo development or evolution
- work out
- gain through experience
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
- To change, to transform.
- To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
- To change or transform (something).
- Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- (biology) Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
noun
- (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- (geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- (military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- (mathematics, now chiefly historical) The extraction of a root from a given power.
- (biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
- (chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
- (chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body.
noun
- (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
- The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
- (systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
- (systematics, informal) A phylogenetic diagram.
- The historical development of a human social or racial group.
noun
- The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.
- The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.
- (more generally) The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.
- Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.
- (by extension) The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.
- Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.
- declaring or rendering bastard
- an act that debases or corrupts
verb
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- become distinct and acquire a different character
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark as different
- calculate a derivative; take the derivative
- become different during development
- To recognize as different or distinct.
- (transitive, intransitive, often in the passive voice, biology) To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.
- To modify so as to create a difference or distinction.
- (mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
- (mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
- To show or be the difference or distinction between things.
- To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
- (education) To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.
noun
verb
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- devote oneself to a special area of work
- be specific about
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- suit to a special purpose
- (usually derogatory) To be known or notorious for some specialty.
- (intransitive) To become distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
- To focus one's study upon a particular skill, field, topic, or genre.
- (rare, transitive) To specify: to mention specifically.
- To focus one's business upon a particular item or service.
- (biology, transitive) To make distinct or separate due to form or function.
- (transitive) To train (someone) in a specialty.
- (uncommon, transitive) To narrow in scope.
adj
- (biology) Functionally similar, but arising through convergent evolution rather than being homologous.
- Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or similar proportion (often followed by "to".)
- corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin
- similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
adj
noun
noun
- (biology) The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution.
- (physiology) The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range.
- (mathematics) The process or property of approaching some limiting value; typically of an infinite series.
- The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT.
- (economics) The hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes tend to grow faster than richer economies.
- (meteorology) A zone where two prevailing wind flows meet and interact, resulting in distinctive weather conditions.
- A meeting place.
- The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
- The act of moving toward union or uniformity.
- the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit
- the act of converging (coming closer)
- the occurrence of two or more things coming together
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
noun
- The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.
- The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
- (calculus) The operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i).
- a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
- an infinite series that has no limit
- a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
- the act of moving away in different direction from a common point
noun
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
- (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
- (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
noun
- The genesis of a species from more than one ancestor.
- The emergence from multiple causes or origins.
- (linguistics) The theory that languages developed independently in different places at different periods, as opposed to originating from a single source.
- (biology) The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; as opposed to monogenesis.
noun
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- (philosophy, theology, historical) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
- The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.
- (uncountable, geology) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.
- (transitive) To produce (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize.
- (intransitive) To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
noun
- (biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
- (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
- The act or process of making whole or entire.
- (US) Ellipsis of racial integration.
- (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
- The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
- the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
- the act of combining into an integral whole
- an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined
noun
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
verb
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
noun
- (biology) The embryotic development of structures or characteristics not present in the species before.
- introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
noun
- the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes
- metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals
- a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner
- (functional programming) A generalization of the list-producing unfolds known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as final coalgebras.
noun
- the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes
- a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner
- The use of this kind of image distortion.
- A distorted image of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror.
- (mycology, lichenology) An abnormal form of some lichens or fungi that gives the appearance of a different species.
- (biology) A form of limited metamorphosis in some arthropods.
noun
- the evolution of a biological species
- (taxonomy) The process by which new distinct species evolve.
- (medicine, pathology) The determination of which species are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.
- (chemistry) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
noun
- (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
- A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
- (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
- (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- (evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
- (colloquial, sometimes offensive) A process by which poor individual choices or attributes naturally, or rightfully, lead to poor outcomes, especially death.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- a passage selected from a larger work
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- something that survives
- a state of surviving; remaining alive
- (as a modifier) Of, relating to or aiding survival.
- (anthropology) A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.
- The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
- (sports) The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.
noun
- (biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.
- (medicine) The process of maturating, or suppurating fully.
- The process of becoming mature.
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
- coming to full development; becoming mature
noun
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
adj
noun
- (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- (geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- (military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- (mathematics, now chiefly historical) The extraction of a root from a given power.
- (biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
- (chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
- (chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body.
noun
- (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
- The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
- (systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
- (systematics, informal) A phylogenetic diagram.
- The historical development of a human social or racial group.
noun
- The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.
- The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.
- (more generally) The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.
- Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.
- (by extension) The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.
- Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.
- declaring or rendering bastard
- an act that debases or corrupts
noun
- (biology) The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution.
- (physiology) The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range.
- (mathematics) The process or property of approaching some limiting value; typically of an infinite series.
- The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT.
- (economics) The hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes tend to grow faster than richer economies.
- (meteorology) A zone where two prevailing wind flows meet and interact, resulting in distinctive weather conditions.
- A meeting place.
- The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
- The act of moving toward union or uniformity.
- the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit
- the act of converging (coming closer)
- the occurrence of two or more things coming together
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
noun
- The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.
- The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
- (calculus) The operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i).
- a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
- an infinite series that has no limit
- a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
- the act of moving away in different direction from a common point
noun
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
- (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
- (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
noun
- The genesis of a species from more than one ancestor.
- The emergence from multiple causes or origins.
- (linguistics) The theory that languages developed independently in different places at different periods, as opposed to originating from a single source.
- (biology) The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; as opposed to monogenesis.
noun
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- (philosophy, theology, historical) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
- The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.
- (uncountable, geology) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.
- (transitive) To produce (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize.
- (intransitive) To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
noun
- (biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
- (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
- The act or process of making whole or entire.
- (US) Ellipsis of racial integration.
- (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
- The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
- the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
- the act of combining into an integral whole
- an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined
noun
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
verb
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
noun
- (biology) The embryotic development of structures or characteristics not present in the species before.
- introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
verb
- repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- summarize briefly
- (transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
- (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.
- (transitive, biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
verb
- undergo development or evolution
- work out
- gain through experience
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
- To change, to transform.
- To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
- To change or transform (something).
- Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- (biology) Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
verb
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- become distinct and acquire a different character
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark as different
- calculate a derivative; take the derivative
- become different during development
- To recognize as different or distinct.
- (transitive, intransitive, often in the passive voice, biology) To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.
- To modify so as to create a difference or distinction.
- (mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
- (mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
- To show or be the difference or distinction between things.
- To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
- (education) To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.
noun
verb
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- devote oneself to a special area of work
- be specific about
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- suit to a special purpose
- (usually derogatory) To be known or notorious for some specialty.
- (intransitive) To become distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
- To focus one's study upon a particular skill, field, topic, or genre.
- (rare, transitive) To specify: to mention specifically.
- To focus one's business upon a particular item or service.
- (biology, transitive) To make distinct or separate due to form or function.
- (transitive) To train (someone) in a specialty.
- (uncommon, transitive) To narrow in scope.
adj
- (biology) Functionally similar, but arising through convergent evolution rather than being homologous.
- Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or similar proportion (often followed by "to".)
- corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin
- similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar