Differentiation

Differentiation may refer to:

Business

 * Differentiation (economics), the process of making a product different from other similar products
 * 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

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