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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Specialization \Spe`cial*i*za"tion\, n.
The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.
(Biol.) The setting apart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function.
--Darwin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837, "act of becoming specialized," noun of action from specialize. Biological sense from 1862. In science and scientific education, "a direction of time and energies in one particular channel to the exclusion of others," by 1880.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of specialize. 2 The act or process becoming specialized}} 3 (label en biology) The adaptation of an organism to a specific environment, or adaptation of an organ to a particular function.
WordNet
n. the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose [syn: specialisation]
the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology" [syn: specialisation, specialty, speciality, specialism]
(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo" [syn: specialisation, differentiation]
Wikipedia
Specialisation, ( or specialization) is an important way to generate propositional knowledge, by applying general knowledge, such as the theory of gravity, to specific instances, such as "when I release this apple, it will fall to the floor". Specialisation is the opposite of generalisation.
Concept B is a specialisation of concept A if and only if:
- every instance of concept B is also an instance of concept A; and
- there are instances of concept A which are not instances of concept B.
Specialization ( or specialisation) is the separation of tasks within a system. In a multicellular creature, cells are specialized for functions such as bone construction or oxygen transport. In capitalist societies, individual workers specialize for functions such as building construction or gasoline transport. In both cases, specialization enables the accomplishment of otherwise unattainable goals. It also reduces the ability of individuals to survive outside of the system containing all of the specialized components.
Adam Smith described economic specialization in his classic work, The Wealth of Nations.
Specialization is when people specialize in one thing or another which they are good at.
One argument holds that the introduction of agriculture to tribes and hunter gatherer's enabled individuals to safely commit more Free Time and resources to maximize their effectiveness in one aspect for mutual benefit to the whole community. Whereas before, this "Free Time" was critically challenged with time spent securing food, shelter and companionship.
Category:Production economics
Specialization or Specialized may refer to:
In linguistics, the term specialization (as defined by Paul Hopper), refers to one of the five principles by which grammaticalization can be detected while it is taking place. The other four principles are: layering, divergence, persistence, and de-categorialization.
Usage examples of "specialization".
And the very lack of specialization had turned him into something of more value: a generalist, a man with the ability to see the forest from a very dense thicket of trees.
Gazzaniga of the State University of New York at Stony Brook suggests that this hemispheric specialization occurs because language is developed in the left hemisphere before the child acquires substantial competence in manipulative skills and geometrical visualization.
Just as business had become specialized and organized, so politics also became subject to specialization and organization.
The specialization of American society has not, however, stopped with its specialized organization.
However, specializations of the vertebrae for weight reduction due to the immense size of these individuals, have provided some means for taxonomic identification.
One of the most engaging views of the subsequent evolution of the brain is a story of the successive accretion and specialization of three further layers surmounting the spinal cord, hindbrain and midbrain.
The Polytrichaceae, on the other hand, show a specialization in structure rather than in form.
The postindustrial age required even more specialization, a larger base of workers and consumers.
Native Sphinxian life forms have always been more of a veterinary specialization, and there are a lot of differences between their neural structures and ours.
One way neurologists have traditionally studied specialization of brain function is to observe the deficits that result from various lesions.
That was not because chiefdoms were more kindly 2 8 O ¦ GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL disposed toward defeated enemies but because the greater economic specialization of states, with more mass production and more public works, provided more uses for slave labor.
Because chiefdoms and state societies have economic specialization, the defeated can be used as slaves, as commonly happened in biblical times.
It is the leisure time, community organization and specialization of labor in the first cities that permitted the emergence of the arts and technologies we think of as the hallmarks of civilizations.
Thus, Polynesian island societies differed greatly in their economic specialization, social complexity, political organization, and material products, related to differences in population size and density, related in turn to differences in island area, fragmentation, and isolation and in opportunities for subsistence and for intensifying food production.
The nerve cord had to specialize, even in the flatworms, and this specialization arose, in all probability because of the shape of the flatwonn.