specialisation
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Noun (3)
- (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function“cell differentiation in the developing embryo”Synonyms: specializationdifferentiation
- the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purposeSynonyms: specialization
- the special line of work you have adopted as your career“his specialization is gastroenterology”Synonyms: specializationspecialtyspecialityspecialism
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
specialisation
A reduction in generality, usually for the sake of increased efficiency. If a piece of code is specialised for certain values of certain variables (usually function arguments), this is known as "partial evaluation". In a language with overloading (e.g. Haskell), an overloaded function might be specialised to a non-overloaded instance at compile-time if the types of its arguments are known.