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erilaistaminen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • differentiation noun The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
  • dissimilation noun The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.

Senses

erilaistaminen is used for these senses in English:

  • differentiation The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
  • dissimilation The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.

differentiation — full definition

  1. noun The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
  2. noun The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
  3. noun The process of developing distinct components.
  4. noun The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.

dissimilation — full definition

  1. noun The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.
  2. noun A dissimilatory process that supply a cell with energy only without the assimilation of nutrients.
  3. noun A phenomenon where one of a pair of similar adjacent consonant or vowel sounds in a word becomes less similar.
  4. noun The rejection, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

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