different between diversification vs classification

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin diversificati?, from diversific?tus, past participle of diversific? (“diversify”), from Latin diversus (“turned in different ways”) + faci? (“make, do”). Synchronically analyzable as diverse +? -ification.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??v?s?f??ke???n/, /da??v?s?f??ke???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??v??s?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

diversification (countable and uncountable, plural diversifications)

1. The act, or the result, of diversifying.
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.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin diversificati?, from diversific?tus, past participle of diversific? (“diversify”), from Latin diversus (“turned in different ways”) + faci? (“make, do”)

Pronunciation

Noun

diversification f (plural diversifications)

1. diversification

Further reading

• “diversification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

Derived terms

• classification scheme
• classification yard

Related terms

• class
• classic
• classify
• category
• categorize
• segment

Translations

Further reading

• classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• classification at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

classe +? -ification

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

1. classification

Further reading

• “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).