SPECIALISM

specialization, specialisation, specialty, speciality, specialism

(noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career; “his specialization is gastroenterology”

specialism

(noun) the concentration of your efforts on a particular field of study or occupation

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

specialism (countable and uncountable, plural specialisms)

(countable) Speciality.

(uncountable) The concentration of one's efforts upon a particular field of study.

Source: Wiktionary


Spe"cial*ism, n.

Definition: Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

17 January 2025

OBSERVE

(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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