Specialization
# 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
* Specialization in multicellular organisms

## 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.
* Specialization (logic)

## Organizations

* SCT Logistics, transport company in Australia that formally traded as Specialised Container Transport
* Specialised Technical Committees of the African Union
* Specialized Technology Resources, an American corporation headquartered in Enfield, Connecticut
* Specialized System Consultants, a private media company that publishes magazines and reference manuals
* Specialized Bicycle Components, a company making bicycles and bicycle components

## Psychology

* Cognitive specialization, refers to the theory that learning certain skills inhibits the ability to learn related but dissimilar skills
* Specialization of knowledge
* Interactive specialization, a theory of brain development

## Other uses

* Specialized Mobile Radio, analog or digital trunked two-way radio system
