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Specialization   /spˌɛʃələzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Specialization

noun
1.
The act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose.  Synonym: specialisation.
2.
The special line of work you have adopted as your career.  Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialty.
3.
(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function.  Synonyms: differentiation, specialisation.






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"Specialization" Quotes from Famous Books



... group of a class may be more closely connected to one of the lowest, than some other groups which have developed laterally and diverged farther from the parent type, but which yet, owing to want of balance or too great specialization in their structure, have never reached a high grade of organization. The Quadrumana afford a very valuable illustration, because, owing to their undoubted affinity with man, we feel certain that they are really higher than any other order of Mammalia, while at ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

... profession of engineering has called to the youth of the land with an almost irresistible voice. The development of steam and gasoline engines, of the electric current, and of a welter of machinery called for engineers. The specialization of engineering practice into production, chemical, industrial, municipal, efficiency, mining, construction, concrete, drainage, irrigation, landscape, and other phases, has still further increased the demand. Some few ...
— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

... to enter engineering colleges usually select one or another of the major branches and then after graduating begin to specialize. But infrequently Fate has much to do with this specialization, since after leaving college the average young engineer will turn to the nearest or most promising vacancy offered him in his chosen field—a major branch—and in the work eventually become expert and a specialist. If it be a concern manufacturing ...
— Opportunities in Engineering • Charles M. Horton

... and became a vast, all-embracing empire, the individual man felt, more and more, his littleness and loneliness. This feeling, together with the increasing specialization of industry, begat a passion for association, and Collegia of many sorts were organized. Even a casual glance at the inscriptions, under the heading Artes et Opificia, will show the enormous development of skilled handicrafts, and how minute ...
— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton

... from the provinces, and the opening of industrial opportunities by commerce, with security, gave great stimulus to free industry. The inscriptions "show the enormous and flourishing development of skilled handicrafts," with minute specialization. "The immense development of the free proletariat, in the time of the early empire, is one of the most striking social phenomena which the study of the inscriptions has brought to light." The time was then past when Roman society depended entirely on slave labor for the supply of all its ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner



Words linked to "Specialization" :   adjustment, biological science, specialism, calling, adaption, career, specialize, biology, change of state, adaptation, specialisation, vocation



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