Diversity

Diversity, diversify, or diverse may refer to:

Business

Politics

  • Diversity (journal), an academic journal published by MDPI
  • Diversity (politics), the political and social policy of encouraging tolerance for people of different cultural and racial backgrounds
  • Diversity Immigrant Visa or Green Card Lottery, a United States immigration program
  • Diversity jurisdiction, a concept under which U.S. federal courts can hear suits between parties from different states
  • Diversity training, the process of educating people to function in a diverse environment
  • Cultural diversity, the respect of different cultures and interculturality
  • Functional diversity (disability), a term for special needs, disability, impairment and handicap
  • Gerodiversity, a multicultural approach to issues of aging
  • Multiculturalism, or ethnic diversity, the promotion of multiple ethnic cultures
  • Neurodiversity, a movement in support of civil rights of people with atypical neurological characteristics

Science

  • Diversity factor, a concept in electrical engineering
  • Diversity index, a statistic to assess the diversity of a population
  • Biodiversity, degree of variation of life forms within an ecosystem
  • Crop diversity, the variance in genetic and phenotypic characteristics of plants used in agriculture
  • Ecosystem diversity, the diversity of a place at the level of ecosystems
  • Functional diversity (ecology), the elements of biodiversity that influence how ecosystems function
  • Genetic diversity, the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species
  • Nucleotide diversity, a measure of the degree of polymorphism within a population
  • Phylogenetic diversity, a measure of biodiversity which incorporates phylogenetic difference between species
  • Species diversity, the effective number of species represented in a data set
  • Linguistic diversity
  • Functional diversity, a term in geography

Technology

  • Diversity combining, the combining of multiple received signals into a single improved signal
  • Diversity gain, the increase in signal-to-interference ratio due to a diversity scheme
  • Diversity scheme, a method for improving reliability of a message signal by using multiple communications channels
  • Antenna diversity or space diversity, a method of wireless communication that use two or more antennas to improve reliability
  • Cooperative diversity, a multiple antenna technique for improving or maximising total network channel capacities
  • Site diversity, multiple receivers for satellite communication
  • Time diversity, a technique used in digital communication systems
  • Transmit diversity, wireless communication using signals originating from two or more independent sources

As a proper name

Music

Other

gollark: There are... two GNU/Linux phones, but none with keyboards.
gollark: I know, right?
gollark: I wouldn't mind a thicker phone. I already have one of those thick wallet-y cases.
gollark: It would be really nice to get phones with several-day battery life. The annoying thing is that lithium ion batteries *are* improving, becoming higher density and all, but the phones just get thinner and less efficient somehow.
gollark: How many hyped new battery technologies actually get sold?

See also

  • Diversification (disambiguation)
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