specialisation

Other forms of specialisation

plural

specialisations·

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 specialisation

What does specialisation mean?

specialisation means "(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in specialisation?

specialisation has 7 syllables and divides as spe-ci-a-li-sa-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for specialisation?

Close synonyms include specialization, differentiation, specialization, specialization, specialty. 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 specialisation a common word?

specialisation 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.