Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
Highly skilled in a specific field. alt. Highly skilled in a specific field. v
(en-past of: specialize)
WordNet
adj. developed or designed for a special activity or function; "a specialized tool" [syn: specialised] [ant: unspecialized]
marked by or characteristic of specialization in a mechanical or scientific subject; "his specialized qualifications for the job"; "all kinds of specialized technical books" [syn: specialised]
Usage examples of "specialized".
The former may be described as duties for the satisfactory discharge of which Congress justifiably feels that a specialized and informed judgment is requisite.
Other polyalphabetics, such as the autokey and the two-tape system, engender specialized solutions that stem from their own peculiarities.
Moreover, the necessity for employees to be of unquestionable loyalty and trustworthiness, because of the sensitive nature of cryptanalytic results, and the importance of their being temperamentally suited to the highly specialized nature of the work, greatly reduced the number of prospects.
Congress has occasionally created courts under article III to exercise a specialized jurisdiction.
For two years he had been assigned to Hut 3, the section of Bletchley Park that specialized in translating and analyzing the decrypted Enigma Army and Air Force messages.
But as the Russian exercise came to an end, he headed back to his home base, the sprawling Navy listening post at Bremerhaven, where he specialized in analyzing intercepted Russian communications.
Cheltenham, it arrived on the desk of an analyst who specialized in weapons systems and had been following the C-802 closely.
These are specialized microcomputers that link two or more incompatible computer networks.
Senior Technical Development Program, which exposes a select group of employees to advanced cryptanalysis and other specialized fields.
And then there is a whole other addition there to turn someone who has working knowledge of the popular language into a cryptolinguist, which is the specialized vocabulary.
Another major contractor during the war was IBM, which built a specialized attachment for its IBM tabulator, thereby increasing the power of the standard punch-card systems by several orders of magnitude.
The vitality of a democracy resided in its extremities, and it would be diminished rather than increased by specialized or centralized guidance.
Just as business had become specialized and organized, so politics also became subject to specialization and organization.
But to consider the specialized organization of our local politics as the direct result of specialized organization of American business is wholly to misunderstand its significance.
That in both of these cases the actual method of organization has threatened vital public interests, and even the very future of democracy has been due chiefly to the disregard by the official American political system of the necessity and the consequences of specialized leadership and associated action.