specialist

adj : showing focused training; "specialist training" [syn: {specialist(a)},

{specialistic}]

n 1: an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of

learning [syn: {specializer}] [ant: {Renaissance man}]

2: practices one branch of medicine [syn: {medical specialist}]

specialisation

A reduction in generality, usually for the sake of increased

efficiency. If a piece of code is specialised for certain

values of certain variables (usually function arguments), this

is known as "{partial evaluation}". In a language with

{overloading} (e.g. {Haskell}), an overloaded function might be

specialised to a non-overloaded instance at compile-time if

the types of its arguments are known.