English Dictionary

differentiate

/dɪf.əˈɹɛn.ʃi.eɪt/

verb

(transitive) To show, or be the distinction between two things. / (intransitive) To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate. / (transitive, intransitive) To modify, or be modified.

Can you differentiate between the two colors?

意味（1）

(transitive) To show, or be the distinction between two things.

The word then was differentiated into the two forms then and than.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.

he refused to instruct that actual intent to harm or recklessness had to be found before punitive damages could be awarded, or that a verdict for respondent should differentiate between compensatory and punitive damages.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To modify, or be modified.

意味（4）

(transitive, mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.

意味（5）

(transitive, mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.

意味（6）

(intransitive, biology) To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development called differentiation.

In Chapter IV we learned that every animal consists of a body, or soma, formed of cells that are differentiated from the germ cells usually at an early stage of development.