specialization

1. Specialization
   The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.
2. Specialization
   (Biol) The setting apart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function.

1. (n) specialization
   The act or process of specializing; a making or fixing of special differences or requirements; differentiation.
2. (n) specialization
   The state of being or becoming specialized; a condition of fixed or developed differentiation, as of parts, organs, or individuals, with reference to form, appearance, function, etc.
3. (n) specialization
   In biology, that evolutionary process whereby parts or organs primitively indifferent or of common character become differentiated in form or function (usually in both); also, the result of such process or course of development; adaptive modification. The most exact synonym is differentiation (which see). It is common to say differentiation of structure, but specialization of function, giving to the former word a morphological and to the latter a physiological significance. Since, however, change of form almost always implies change in use of the parts thus modified in adaptation to different purposes, the two words come to the same thing in the end, and may be interchanged. The whole course of biological evolution is from the most general to some particular form and function, or from that which is simple, primitive, indifferent, and low in the scale of organization to that which is a complex of particulars and thus highly organized. Such specialization is expressed both in the structure of any of the higher animals and plants, regarded as wholes to be compared with other wholes, and in the structure of their several parts, organs, or tissues, compared with one another in the same animal or plant, and compared with the corresponding parts, organs, or tissues in different animals and plants. The actual ways in which or means by which specialization is known or supposed to be effected are among the broadest problems in biology. See biological matter under evolution, Darwinism, selection, survival, variation, species, protoplasm, morphology, homology, analogy, heredity, environment, and words of like bearing on the points in question.
4. (n) specialization
   Also spelled specialisation.

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