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autodifferentiation

autodifferentiation noun: the automatic differentiation of a function by a computer.

Noun (1)

autodifferentiation (uncountable)

  1. The automatic differentiation of a function by a computer.
    • The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule. Here's a simple example of autodifferentiation.2021, Joe Papa, PyTorch Pocket Reference, page 48
  2. Automatic differentiation and specialization of cells; autonomous development.
    • Spermatogenic cells appear to be incapable of autodifferentiation in an anhormonal environment.1981, C. R. Austin, Colin Russell Austin, Robert Geoffrey, Mechanisms of Sex Differentiation in Animals and Man, page 66
    • Undifferentiated gonia undergo autodifferentiation to oocytes in the absence of any hormone.2012, Karl Maramorosch, Invertebrate Tissue Culture: Research Applications, page 67

Noun (2)

autodifferentiation (uncountable)

  1. The differentiation of a whole into distinct parts; self-differentiation.
    • This relation and alterity of Jesus before the Father is understood as autodifferentiation, a key word of the German author's Trinitarian theology: 'Self-differentiating himself from the Father, submitting himself as his creature to his will and thus making it the place of his divinity, what is...2012, Giulio Maspero, Robert J. Wozniak, Rethinking Trinitarian Theology, page 136
    • Refusing the model of exclusion, that is, of an expulsion that produces an outside, Derrida holds that an 'original act' of severance, if it is not to imply a metaphysics of presence, can only be an autodifferentiation: 'a self-dividing action' 'interior to logos in general', to 'a logos that...2016, Yubraj Aryal, Between Foucault and Derrida

Examples of autodifferentiation in a sentence

  • Singh et al. (2013) reported that a coating of fibronectin (attachment protein) on SF/CE membrane exhibited enhanced adhesion and autodifferentiation of stem cells.2019, Valentina Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu, Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Biopolymer Fibers, page 360:
  • This is a particularly interesting form of autodifferentiation, one that is highly compatible with Baudelaire's ever-unsettled Paris.2021, Alistair Rolls, Marguerite Johnson, Remembering Paris in Text and Film:

Synonyms of autodifferentiation

Origin of autodifferentiation

From auto- (“automatic”) + differentiation.

From auto- (“self-”) + differentiation.

Words formed from autodifferentiation

  • autodiff

Questions about autodifferentiation

What does autodifferentiation mean?
Autodifferentiation means the automatic differentiation of a function by a computer.
How do you use autodifferentiation in a sentence?
Singh et al. (2013) reported that a coating of fibronectin (attachment protein) on SF/CE membrane exhibited enhanced adhesion and autodifferentiation of stem cells.
What part of speech is autodifferentiation?
Autodifferentiation is a noun.

Words near autodifferentiation in the dictionary

  1. autodidacticism
  2. autodidaction
  3. autodidactism
  4. autodidacts
  5. autodiegetic
  6. autodifferentiation
  7. autodiffusion
  8. autodigest
  9. autodigested
  10. autodigesting
  11. autodigestion

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