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Noun

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WordNet specialisation
n 1: (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a
particular function; "cell differentiation in the
developing embryo" [syn: specialization, differentiation]
2: the act of specializing; making something suitable for a
special purpose [syn: specialization]
3: the special line of work you have adopted as your career;
"his specialization is gastroenterology" [syn: specialization,
specialty, speciality, specialism]

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.