Specialization

Specialization or Specialized may refer to:

Academia

 * Academic specialization, may be a course of study or major at an academic institution or may refer to the field in which a specialist practices
 * Specialty (medicine), a branch of medical practice

Biology

 * Cellular differentiation, the process by which a less specialized cell becomes a more specialized cell type
 * Specialty (medicine), a branch of medical science
 * Generalist and specialist species, in biology and ecology

Computer science

 * Partial template specialization, a particular form of class template specialization
 * Template specialization, a style of computer programming which allows alternative implementations to be provided based on certain characteristics of the parameterized type that is being instantiated

Economics and industry

 * Departmentalization, refers to the process of grouping activities into departments
 * Division of labour, the specialization of cooperative labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles
 * Economic specialization, the separation of tasks within an economy
 * Flexible Specialization (Post-Fordism), a name given to the dominant system of economic production, consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century
 * Network governance, also known as Flexible Specialization

Linguistics

 * Specialization (linguistics)
 * Specialized English, a controlled version of the English language used for radio broadcasting, easier for non-native speakers

Mathematics

 * Specialization (pre)order, a natural preorder on the set of the points of a topological space
 * Ring of symmetric functions, an algebra homomorphism from the ring of symmetric functions to a commutative algebra.
 * Specialization (logic)

Organizations

 * SCT Logistics, transport company in Australia that formally traded as Specialised Container Transport
 * Specialised Technical Committees of the African Union
 * Specialized Technology Resources, an American corporation headquartered in Enfield, Connecticut
 * Specialized System Consultants, a private media company that publishes magazines and reference manuals
 * Specialized Bicycle Components, a company making bicycles and bicycle components

Psychology

 * Cognitive specialization, refers to the theory that learning certain skills inhibits the ability to learn related but dissimilar skills
 * Specialization of knowledge
 * Interactive specialization, a theory of brain development

Other uses

 * Specialized Mobile Radio, analog or digital trunked two-way radio system