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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English differentiated English undifferentiated From un- + differentiated.
Meanings
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Not differentiated; not different; alike.
If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.
2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer:
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Not differentiated; not different; alike. ▸ Describing tissues where the individual cells have not yet developed mature or distinguishing features, or describes embryonic organisms where the organs cannot be identified.
This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.
2022 May 7, Liang En Wee, Edwin Philip Conceicao, Jean Xiang-Ying Sim, May Kyawt Aung, Aung Myat Oo, et al., “Dengue and COVID-19: Managing Undifferentiated Febrile Illness during a ‘Twindemic’”, in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, →DOI:
- Not differentiated; not different; alike. ▸ Describing a plant body where the vascular tissue has not developed, as in the thallophytes.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more undifferentiated | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most undifferentiated | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
differentiated · differentiated · differentiated
Deriveds
Relateds
nondifferentiation · undifferentiation · undifferentiable · nondifferentiable
Synonyms
nondifferentiated · nondifferentiated · nondifferentiated
Translations (6)
fi erilaistumaton (in biology) · it indifferenziato (in botany) · el αδιαφοροποίητος (in biology) · el αδιαφοροποίητος (not differentiated) · el αδιαφοροποίητος (in botany) · it indifferenziato (in biology)