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diversified en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Diverse; various.
   • Against the huge boulderstones which lay scattered about on the shore, the mighty waves broke incessantly in the maddest and most diversified manner. 1844, Johann Georg Kohl, Ireland:
   • Men of diversified temperament can learn valuable lessons from those of the conserving type by not attempting to think of so many disassociated things; that is, by concentrating the mind. 1917 June 21, William Judson Kibby, “Analyzing Character by Observation”, in Iron Trade Review, volume 60, number 25, page 1345:
   • We thus see that these naturalised plants are of a highly diversified nature. 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection:
2. Employing the use of diversification; deliberately using a variety of instruments, methods, ingredients, or products, typically to reduce risk.
   • The main lesson from East Asia is that improved access to infrastructure, a highly qualified workforce, and enforced rules of the game that reward investment and innovation are more likely to provide fertile ground for the emergence of a more efficient and diversified production base. 2014, Indermit S. Gill, Ivailo Izvorski, Willem van Eeghen, Diversified Development:
   • This also involves establishing a diversified portfolio that matches the investor's objectives and periodically examining and adjusting the portfolio to ensure it stays aligned with the investor's goals. 2023, How to Create and Maintain a Diversified Investment Portfolio:
   • Diversified farming reduces the risk. 1915, University of Delaware. Division of Agricultural Extension, Extension Bulletin - Issues 2-17:
   • On-farm irrigation facilities require modifications to provide the proper water conditions for diversified crops. 1986, Technical Assistance for Irrigation Management for Diversified Crops in the Philippines, page 21:
3. Changed in a way that creates more diversity.
   • Even in a highly diversified society, Durkheim (1933) wrote, Men submit to the same law . 2001, John Sutton, Law/Society: Origins, Interactions, and Change:
   • The diversified gene differs from the germline gene by multiple nucleotides. 1993, Janos Gergely, Progress in Immunology Vol. VIII, page 102:
   • In West Pakistan during the second plan period efforts were made to introduce diversified courses in 600 middle schools but the difficulty in getting qualified teachers even by giving them shorter periods of training did not make it possible to implement the scheme successfully. 1966, Pakistan. Commission on Student Problems and Welfare, Report, page 22:

Forms

Deriveds

stereodiversified · prediversified · nondiversified · multidiversified · undiversified

Translations (2)

pt diversificado (Translations) · cs diverzifikovaný (Translations)

diversified en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) past participle of diversify
   form of diversify