Usually means: Origin of new biological species.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word speciation:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. speciation: Merriam-Webster
  2. speciation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. speciation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. speciation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. speciation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Speciation, speciation: Wordnik
  7. speciation: Wiktionary
  8. speciation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. speciation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. speciation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. speciation: Dictionary.com
  12. Speciation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. speciation: Rhymezone
  14. speciation: FreeDictionary.org
  15. speciation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. speciation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speciation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. speciation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. speciation: Medical dictionary

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  4. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  5. speciation: Evolution Glossary
  6. speciation: Evolution Glossary
  7. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  8. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See speciate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (speciation)

noun:  (taxonomy) The process by which new distinct species evolve.
noun:  (chemistry) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
noun:  (medicine, pathology) The determination of which species are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.

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