Differentiation may refer to:
Business Product differentiation, in marketing Differentiated service, a service that varies with the identity of the consumer or the context in which the service is used
Science, technology, and mathematics Biology and medicine Cellular differentiation, in biology Differentiation (journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal covering cell differentiation and cell development Developmental biology, the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop Differentiation therapy, a cancer treatment in which malignant cells are encouraged to differentiate into more mature forms using pharmacological agents
Geology Igneous differentiation, in geology Planetary differentiation, in planetary science and geology
Social sciences Differentiation (economics), the process of making a product different from other similar products Differentiation (ethnography), the invention of ostensible differences between cultures Differentiation (linguistics), in semantics, a meaning shift reached by "adding concepts to the original concepts" Differentiation (sociology), a feature of modern society, and way of dealing with complexity Differentiated instruction, in education Inductive reasoning aptitude, in psychology
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics Differentiation (mathematics), the process of finding a derivative Differentiated security, a form of computer security that deploys different security policies and mechanisms according to the identity and context of a user or transaction
See also Difference (disambiguation) Different (disambiguation) Differentiation of measures (disambiguation) Differential (disambiguation)
: includes undifferentiation and undifferentiated (mostly used in biological or medical terms)