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The act of diversifying (introducing variety)
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WordNet
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n. the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered); "my broker recommended a greater diversification of my investments"; "he limited his losses by diversification of his product line" [syn: variegation ...
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Diversification may refer to: Diversification (biology) emergence of subpopulations that have accumulated independent genetic changes Diversification (finance) involves spreading investments Diversification (marketing strategy) is a corporate strategy to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, noun of action from Medieval Latin diversificare (see diversify ). Economic sense is from 1939.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diversification \Di*ver`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See Diversify .] The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. --Boyle. State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation. Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act, or the result, of diversifying. 2 A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
Usage examples of diversification.
I think, at least safely infer that diversification of structure, amounting to new generic differences, would have been profitable to them.
The same sort of diversification according to habitat preferences seems to have been the fate of the horned dinosaurs, a group characterized by such features as huge heads and pointed rostral bones or beaks.
The advantage of diversification in the inhabitants of the same region is, in fact, the same as that of the physiological division of labour in the organs of the same individual body--a subject so well elucidated by Milne Edwards.
And the Fecundity (Plenitude) of Nature has one law, he maintains: progressive diversification (what we would call progressive complexification or differentiation).
As we saw in Chapter 2, though, Polynesian political and social organization and economies underwent great diversification in different environments.
This internal differentiation [tenet I2b in interiors] was the natural basis for a cultural diversification evidenced in a multiplicity of social learning processes.
We think it was because the seas of the world were empty of multi-cellular life, so there was for a time completely free diversification.
While educators are rapidly multiplying the number of alternative paths, the pace of diversification is by no means swift enough for the students.
Ancestral cabbage plants, possibly grown originally for their oily seeds, underwent even greater diversification as they became variously selected for leaves (modern cabbage and kale), stems (kohlrabi), buds (brussels sprouts), or flower shoots (cauliflower and broccoli).