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specialization | American Dictionary

specialization
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌspeʃ·ə·ləˈzeɪ·ʃən/
the limiting of one’s study or work to one particular area, or a particular area of knowledge:
[ C ]My main specialization was literature.
biology
Specialization is also the development in organisms of cells that have particular purposes.

specialization | Business English

specialization
noun[ C or U ]
(UK alsospecialisation)uk /ˌspeʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/us
a particular area of knowledge or the process of becoming an expert in a particular area:
In most industries, specialization is common.

Examples of specialization

specialization
Humanlike structural left-right brain asymmetries are therefore present in great apes without any related functional specializations for language.
As a consequence, the production of security suffered from a lack of specialization.
Such tasks would favor specialization of each hand, with prolonged practice leading to increased differences between the hands.
Vertical integration and contracting began in the broiler industry23 and increased specialization and scale of agricultural production of livestock1.
Basically, the specialization technique will consist on specialization of rules by removing and reordering predicates.
That is, biological tissue that initially has many possibilities for subsequent specialization through development reduces those possibilities to a subset of the original.
Specifically, early processing biases are likely to be altered, probably resulting in the development of abnormal patterns of interregional specialization.
The supply-related approach not simply considers the number of health care facilities available to the population, but also their degree of specialization.
Economic specialization among herders, farmers and hunter-gatherers led to different ethnic economies within inclusive cultural practices and institutions.
Through time, the development of incense burners in the lowlands exhibited increasing specialization in shape, function, and iconography.
Only the generic specialization engine needs to be updated and maintained.
Their specialization is evident in having both wide, but regional selective, projections across the cerebrum and within the cortical microcircuitry.
We have applied the methodology to derive combinators for standard specialization and for continuation-based specialization (once using continuations and once using control operators).
To be influencial in any area of economics requires a degree of specialization that virtually rules out broad influence throughout the field.
However, this partial evaluator does not seem to allow interesting computational effects at specialization time.
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Collocations withspecialization

specialization

These are words often used in combination with specialization.

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academic specialization
What academicspecialization dictates does not necessarily coincide with the complex condition of our world.
area of specialization
Now, the rule is that the major of a student must match his/her advisor's major areaofspecialization.
degree of specialization
The supply-related approach not simply considers the number of health care facilities available to the population, but also their degreeofspecialization.
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