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specialized
[ spesh-uh-lahyzd ]
adjective
- invested with a special character or restricted to a special function or field of activity:
He campaigned for a specialized burn department to be established at the hospital.
The humanities, once a highly specialized pursuit, have rapidly become a much broader conversation.
- Biology. (of an organism or organ) adapted to a special function or environment:
If the coastal sage scrub were to vanish, so would these specialized species of insects that are dependent on it.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of specialize.
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz··· especially British, ԴDz··· adjective
- ···· especially British, ···· adjective
- ܲ··· especially British, ܲ··· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of specialized1
Example Sentences
Our particular form of intelligence, it seems, depends on this minority of specialized neuron types.
On its website, Elemetal says its specialized facilities melt gold sources such as scrap jewelry and impaired bullion to separate impurities and obtain refined gold.
“Parents have never extended support of this scale and frequency before,” Dr. Michael Kane, a psychiatrist specialized in family medicine, told Salon in an email response to the survey.
“We have building space we don’t pay rent for. There are the refrigeration services and the ventilation services we need to do our specialized work. Our indirect costs go to support that.”
The battery brining liquid is a hazardous waste product too and is trucked to another specialized facility, the agency said.
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