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specialization

American  
[spesh-uh-luh-zey-shuhn] / ˌspɛʃ ə ləˈzeɪ ʃən /
especially British, specialisation

noun

  1. the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work.

    Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.

  2. Biology. the adaptation of an organism or organ to a special function or environment.

    Basic biology suggests the selective pressures leading to convergent evolutionary specialization among desert-dwelling species.

  3. the act of being restricted to some specific, or the act of becoming specialized.

Other Word Forms

  • despecialization noun
  • nonspecialization noun
  • subspecialization noun
  • superspecialization noun

Etymology

Origin of specialization

specializ(e) + -ation

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