- [uncountable, singular] the act of recognizing or showing that two things are not the same
- product differentiation
- differentiation between/of A and B There needs to be a clear differentiation between communal and private areas of the house.
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- [uncountable] differentiation between/among A and B treatment of people or things in different ways, especially unfairly synonym discrimination
- a policy that makes no differentiation among ethnic groups
- [uncountable] (biology) the process of a cell becoming different during growth and development
- The proteins of a cell may change during differentiation.
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