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διαφοροποίηση — meaning in English

diaforopoiisi

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English meaning

  • differentiation noun The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
  • diversification noun The practice of spreading money across a number of different investments, industries, asset types or countries, so that the fortunes of the whole holding depend less on any single one of them.

Senses

διαφοροποίηση is used for these senses in English:

  • differentiation The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
  • differentiation (mathematics, calculus) The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
  • diversification The act, or the result, of diversifying.

differentiation — full definition

  1. noun The act or process of differentiating (generally, without a specialized sense).
  2. noun The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
  3. noun The process of developing distinct components.
  4. noun The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.

diversification — full definition

  1. noun The practice of spreading money across a number of different investments, industries, asset types or countries, so that the fortunes of the whole holding depend less on any single one of them.
  2. noun More generally, the act of expanding into new products, markets or activities rather than relying on one.

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