Specialization
Specialization or Specialized may refer to: == Academia == Academic specialization, may be a course of study or major at an academic institution or may refer to the field in which a specialist practices Specialty (medicine), a branch of medical practice == Biology == Cellular differentiation, the process by which a less specialized cell becomes a more specialized cell type Specialty (medicine), a branch of medical science Generalist and specialist species, in biology and ecology == Computer science == Partial template specialization, a particular form of class template specialization Template specialization, a style of computer programming which allows alternative implementations to be provided based on certain characteristics of the parameterized type that is being instantiated == Economics and industry == Departmentalization, refers to the process of grouping activities into departments Division of labour, the specialization of cooperative labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles Economic specialization, the separation of tasks within an economy Flexible Specialization (Post-Fordism), a name given to the dominant system of economic production, consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century Network governance, also known as Flexible Specialization == Linguistics == Specialization (linguistics) Specialized English, a controlled version of the English language used for radio broadcasting, easier for non-native speakers == Mathematics == Specialization (pre)order, a natural preorder on the set of the points of a topological space Ring of symmetric functions#Specializations, an algebra homomorphism from the ring of symmetric functions to a commutative algebra.