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codifferentiation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-lbor. English co- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin differō Latin differēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin differentia New Latin differentiō New Latin differentiātusbor. English differentiate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English differentiation ▲ English co- ▲ English differentiate English codifferentiate ▲ English -ion English codifferentiation From co- + differentiation, or from codifferentiate + -ion.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of obtaining the codifferential of a function, or a function which obtains the codifferential
    • In addition, a is called a co-exact form if the r-form a can be written as codifferentiation of a (r + l)-form β, ie, a = δβ. 1997, Bo-Yu Hou, Bo-Yuan Hou, Differential Geometry for Physicists, →ISBN, page 113:
  2. (uncountable) To differentiate in parallel, as in embryonic or evolutionary development
    • The codifferentiation of myoepithelium and its basement membrane is associated with changes in the surrounding stroma. 1983, J.M. Williams, C.W. Daniel, “Mammary ductal elongation”, in Developmental Biology, volume 97, number 2:

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Relateds

codifferentiable · codifferentiate · codifferential