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verscheidenheid — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • diversity noun The quality of containing many different types or forms.
  • variety noun A deviation or difference.

Senses

verscheidenheid is used for these senses in English:

  • diversity The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
  • variety (algebraic geometry) Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).

diversity — full definition

  1. noun The quality of containing many different types or forms.
  2. noun The presence and fair inclusion of people from different backgrounds, such as race, gender, or culture, within a group.

variety — full definition

  1. noun A deviation or difference.
  2. noun A specific variation of something.
  3. noun An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar.
  4. noun A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.

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