Biological process

NK T lymphocyte differentiation, NK T-cell differentiation, NK T-lymphocyte differentiation, NKT cell differentiation, NT cell differentiation, natural T cell differentiation, natural killer T cell differentiation

The process in which a precursor cell type acquires the specialized features of a NK T cell.

NK T cell development

Note that NK T cells are a distinct lineage of T cells expressing natural killer cell markers and having T cell receptors characterized by the usage of a restricted repertoire of variable region gene segments. Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.