1813 Mem. Analyt. Soc. Pref. p. v Brook Taylor, according to Lagrange, was the first who arrived at a particular solution by differentiating.

1847 Proc. Royal Irish Soc. 3 459 ∇′ denoted any combination of differencings and differentiatings, performed with respect to o ′.

1914 S. P. Thompson Calculus made Easy (ed. 2) v. 26 Our next step is to find out what effect on the process of differentiating is caused by the presence of constants.

2010 M. Ryan et al. Calculus Essent. for Dummies v. 59 Because your last computation is multiplication, your first step in differentiating is to use the product rule.

1887 Microscope 7 244 The decided color serves not only to draw out the specimen from the obscurity of the surrounding mounting-medium, but aids very materially in the differentiating of its component parts.

1895 Proc. 18th Ann. Meeting N.Y. State Bar Assoc. 234 All these differentiatings are utterly unnecessary.

1916 Psychol. Rev. 23 488 The feeble-minded child's attention flickers too much and rests nowhere long enough to observe sharply, hence its power of differentiating is decidedly thwarted or nil.

2010 A. Benjamin & J. T. Crow Vocab. at Center (2013) vii. 67 Differentiating is a form of analysis.

1901 Bot. Gaz. 32 239 The processes leading to zonation may indeed be characterized provisionally as a differentiating of the oogonium into two regions.

1916 W. E. Whitehouse Study Variation Apples (Bull. Oregon Agric. College Exper. Station No. 134) 62 That buds on such spurs would be behind those of old spurs in differentiating is to be expected.

2008 T. Langley & J. K. Ledford in A. Lens et al. Ocular Anat. & Physiol. ii.10 The development of the eye occurs alongside the differentiating of the central nervous system.

1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy I. 133 A definition can comprehend no more than one thing within the terms of its differentiating description.

1849 North Brit. Rev. 11 149 It needs scarcely be mentioned that the differentiating qualities of those great representatives are not sought in the external properties of their works.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. xx. 490 The differentiating influence of ‘environment’ on two minds of similar natural cast.

1939 Frederick (Maryland) Post 9 Oct. 4/3 The most differentiating feature is the short, close feathers of the legs.

1980 Orange Coast Oct. 119/2 Many of the dishes from the menu tend toward the spicy as this is the differentiating factor in the food from Szechwan.

2002 D. Goleman et al. Business: Ultimate Resource 1294/3 Niche consumers often look for exclusiveness or some other differentiating factor such as high status.

1877 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 17 410 The molecules destined to build up the enteric cell and deric cell..are already present before they are made visible to the eye by segregation and accumulation on opposite faces of the differentiating cell.

1899 Monist 9 548 The food-yolk contained in the ovum provides sufficient material for the assimilation of the protoplasm of the differentiating cells.

1917 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 36 103 The authors therefore look upon the early embryo as a differentiating plasmodium.

1970 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 7 Apr. a14/8 The early conceptus is simply a group of differentiating cells with the potential of becoming a human being.

2009 D. P. Horvarth & J. V. Anderson in C. N. Stewart Weedy & Invasive Plant Genomics viii. 114 An undifferentiated pool of cells..is maintained to replace cells..that are lost when they are incorporated into differentiating organs.

1879 J. Morison in Expositor 9 106 He immediately adds differentiatingly a servant of Jesus Christ.

1917 J. London Jerry of Islands i. 11 He could smell a crocodile farther off and more differentiatingly than could any man.

2009 D. H. Green Women & Marriage in German Medieval Romance ii. iii. 94 Hartmann's apparently sweeping remarks about women need to be looked at closely and differentiatingly.