specialisation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: specialisation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for specialisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
specialisation n (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo" Synonym(s): specialization, specialisation, differentiation the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose Synonym(s): specialization, specialisation the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology" Synonym(s): specialization, specialisation, specialty, speciality, specialism
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
specialisation A reduction in generality, usually for the sake of increased efficiency. If a piece of code is specialised for certain values of certain variables (usually function arguments), this is known as "{partial evaluation}". In a language with {overloading} (e.g. {Haskell}), an overloaded function might be specialised to a non-overloaded instance at compile-time if the types of its arguments are known.