codifferentiation

English

Alternative forms

• co-differentiation

Etymology

From co- +‎ differentiation or codifferentiate +‎ -ion.

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Noun

codifferentiation (uncountable)

1. (calculus) The act or process of obtaining the codifferential of a function, or a function which obtains the codifferential
   • 1997, Bo-Yu Hou, Bo-Yuan Hou, Differential Geometry for Physicists‎, →ISBN, page 113:

     In addition, a is called a co-exact form if the r-form a can be written as codifferentiation of a (r + l)-form β, ie, a = δβ.

2. (biology) To differentiate in parallel, as in embryonic or evolutionary development
   • 1983, J.M. Williams, C.W. Daniel, “Mammary ductal elongation”, in Developmental Biology‎, volume 97, number 2:

     The codifferentiation of myoepithelium and its basement membrane is associated with changes in the surrounding stroma.

Related terms

• codifferentiable
• codifferential
• codifferentiate