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Specialization vs Integration - What's the difference?

specialization | integration |

As nouns the difference between specialization and integration

is that specialization is the process of specializing while integration is the act or process of making whole or entire.

specialization

English

Alternative forms

* specialisation (non-Oxford British spelling)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of specializing.
  • * 1973', , ' Time Enough For Love
  • A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

    Antonyms

    * generalization * abstraction American English forms

    integration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of making whole or entire.
  • (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
  • (calculus) The operation of finding the of a function.
  • (biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
  • Derived terms

    * integrationist * enterprise application integration * horizontal integration * indefinite integration * integral calculus * integration clause * racial integration * vertical integration * forward integration * backward integration

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