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Confrontation vs Differentiation - What's the difference?

confrontation | differentiation |

As nouns the difference between confrontation and differentiation

is that confrontation is the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face while differentiation is differentiation (all senses).

confrontation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face
  • A conflict between armed forces

    • differentiation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of differentiating.
  • The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
  • The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.
  • (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
  • (calculus) The process of determining the derived function of a function.

    • Derived terms

    * cellular differentiation * evolutionary differentiation * planetary differentiation

    Related terms

    * differ * difference * different * differentiate * differential

    See also

    * ("differentiation" on Wikipedia)