differentiating
- 1Present participle and gerund of differentiate.
Biologists are differentiating the new species from its closest relatives.
Differentiating fact from opinion is a key skill in critical reading.
Note
One -ing form doing two jobs: after be it carries the progressive, and on its own it works as a noun naming the activity, free to stand as subject, as object, or after a preposition. The verb behind it usually takes an object, as in differentiating one thing from another, but it can also stand without one, as in differentiating between them. In calculus it means taking a function's derivative.
She still has trouble differentiating between the twins.
Differentiating x squared gives 2x.
differentiating is a form of differentiate
differentiate, verb: To recognize one thing as different or distinct from another. Full entry
- Forms
- differentiatedifferentiates he/she/itdifferentiating -ing formdifferentiated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- differentiate → differentiating: drop the e, add -ing
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