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/dˌɪfərˈɛnʃiˌeɪt/ /dˌɪfərˈɛntʃiˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Differentiate v. t.

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize. "The word then was differentiated into the two forms then and than." "Two or more of the forms assumed by the same original word become differentiated in signification."

To express the specific difference of; to describe the properties of (a thing) whereby it is differenced from another of the same class; to discriminate.

(Math.) To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation.

Differentiate v. i. (Biol.) To acquire a distinct and separate character.

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Etymology of 'Differentiate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Differentiate" Quotes from Famous Books

... speculative opinion, to what seems to me the region of facts, of actual conditions, of actual traits of human nature, I wish it to be understood distinctly that in what I may say about rights I am considering only the precepts of justice, and that I differentiate those precepts from the precepts of religion, charity, philanthropy, benevolence, and other similar virtues, and even those of what is loosely called humanity. If it be true as asserted by Addison that justice is the greatest ...

— Concerning Justice • Lucilius A. Emery

... coming back on Sunday morning. She had domesticated herself automatically, in the little hotel across from the theater, and she had gone right on working just as she did at the Globe. Oddly enough, she didn't differentiate much between rehearsals and the performances. Perhaps because she was so absorbed with her labors off the stage; perhaps because the thoroughly tentative nature of everything they did was so strongly impressed ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... always easy, and one has to differentiate poisoning from cerebral apoplexy. In the latter one can seldom rouse the patient, the pupils are often unequal, and hemiplegia is present. In compression of the brain, fracture of the skull may ...

— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... To learn to differentiate between that reasonable discontent which is the mainspring of human progress, and that unreasonable discontent which ...

— The Inhumanity of Socialism • Edward F. Adams

... the choice of his words, careful in the choice of his books, and would recommend nothing but the best. "I may not have genius enough," he would say, "to distinguish between better and best, but I do not lack common sense, to differentiate tares from weeds." Above all, he possessed a sense of honor, the greatest stimulus, as he maintained, to noble endeavors. "For as marriage is necessary to perpetuate the race, and food to sustain the individual, so is honor to the ...

— The Haskalah Movement in Russia • Jacob S. Raisin

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