(geology) Something that has been differentiated or stratified.

(medicine) The process of determining which disease, from a set of possible candidates, is causing a patient's symptoms.

(calculus) A differential equation that involves the partial derivatives of a function of several variables.

(calculus) an equation involving the derivatives of a function

(physics, chemistry) The branch of materials science that studies the temperature dependant properties of materials compared with some reference material.

(physics, chemistry) The application of a thermoanalytic technique involving recording any temperature difference between sample and reference materials that are undergoing identical thermal cycles.

plural of differentiation

plural of semantic differentiation

a thermal analysis technique in which a tiny sample pan is heated together with an empty reference pan and the difference in heat flow between the two measured as a function of temperature.

(calculus) An equation involving the derivatives of a function of only one independent variable.