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diversification|dɪˌvɜːsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən, daɪ-|
[n. of action f. med.L. dīversificāre to diversify: cf. F. diversification (14th c. in Littré).]
a. The action of diversifying; the process of becoming diversified; the fact of being diversified; the production of diversity or variety of form or qualities.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1027 They be passions, accidents, and diversifications of elements. 1681H. More Exp. Dan i. 14 Which diversification..need not be expressed. 1776Johnson Let. to Boswell 16 Nov. in Boswell Life, Such an effort annually would give the world a little diversification. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic xi. (1833) 288 He at first was perplexed about the diversification of the pattern. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. (1872) 90 In the Australian mammals, we see the process of diversification in an early and incomplete stage of development.
b. A diversified condition, form, or structure.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. ii. 305 Animals..that yet possibly are not of the same Species, but have accidental diversifications. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 48 The minuter diversifications are called varieties.
c. Econ. The spread of investment over a variety of enterprises, or the production of a variety of different articles, services, etc., often as a safeguard against the effects of fall in demand for a particular product.
1939S. R. Dennison Location of Industry i. ii. 38 Industrial diversification will result in the development of subsidiary and complementary industries, and also of entirely new lines of manufacture. 1944A. Cairncross Introd. Econ. ii. vi. 76 Such diversification makes the firm less vulnerable to sudden changes and allows it to remain a going concern where smaller, less diversified concerns would be forced to give up business. 1971Brit. Printer Jan. 104/1 A stone-layer, named Hans Rüegger, venturing into an early example of diversification, added a printing shop to his business. |