diversification

See also: divèrsificâtion

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin diversificatiō, from diversificātus, past participle of diversificō (“diversify”), from Latin diversus (“turned in different ways”) + faciō (“make, do”). By surface analysis, diverse +‎ -ification.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˌvɝsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, /daɪˌvɝsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪˌvɜːsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

diversification (countable and uncountable, plural diversifications)

1. The act, or the result, of diversifying.
   • 2024 August 14, Vittoria Elliott, “Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet”, in WIRED‎^[1]:

     In 2024, the campaigns are against video game consulting companies such as Sweet Baby for performing what some gamers believe is “forced diversification.”

2. A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
3. (finance) An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.

   Coordinate terms: hedge, hedging

Derived terms

• magic of diversification
• time diversification
• under-diversification

 

Translations

act of diversifying

• Arabic: تَنْوِيع m (tanwīʕ)
• Azerbaijani: tənəvvü
• Belarusian: дыверсіфіка́цыя f (dyvjersifikácyja)
• Bulgarian: разнообразя́ване (bg) n (raznoobrazjávane)
• Catalan: diversificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多樣化／多样化 (zh) (duōyànghuà), 多元化 (zh) (duōyuánhuà)

• Czech: diverzifikace (cs) f
• Finnish: monipuolistaminen (tr.), monipuolistuminen (intr.)
• French: diversification (fr) f
• Galician: diversificación (gl) f
• German: Diversifikation (de) f, Diversifizierung f
• Greek: διαφοροποίηση (el) (diaforopoíisi)
• Indonesian: diversifikasi (id)
• Italian: diversificazione (it) f
• Japanese: 多様化 (ja) (たようか, tayōka), 万状 (ja) (ばんじょう, banjō)
• Khmer: ពិពិធកម្ម (pipɨtthĕəʼkam)
• Korean: 다양화(多樣化) (ko) (dayanghwa), 다원화(多元化) (dawonhwa), 다각화(多角化) (dagakhwa)
• Macedonian: диверзификација f (diverzifikacija)
• Maori: whakakanorautanga
• Norman: divèrsificâtion f
• Ottoman Turkish: تنوع (tenevvü)
• Persian: تنوع (fa)
• Polish: dywersyfikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: diversificação f
• Russian: диверсифика́ция (ru) f (diversifikácija)
• Slovak: diverzifikácia f
• Spanish: diversificación (es) f
• Swedish: diversifiering (sv) c
• Ukrainian: диверсифіка́ція f (dyversyfikácija), урізномані́тнення n (uriznomanítnennja)

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin diversificātiōnem, from diversificātus, past participle of diversificō (“diversify”), from Latin diversus (“turned in different ways”) + faciō (“make, do”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vɛʁ.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

diversification f (plural diversifications)

1. diversification

Further reading

• “diversification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.