differentiation

Other forms of differentiation

plural

differentiations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about differentiation

What does differentiation mean?

differentiation means "a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in differentiation?

differentiation has 6 syllables: dif-fe-ren-ti-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /dɪfɚˌɛnʃiˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for differentiation?

Close synonyms include distinction, specialization, specialisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is differentiation a common word?

differentiation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with differentiation?

133 words rhyme with differentiation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.