Another word for variegation
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Noun
The quality of being made of many different elements, forms, kinds, or individuals
- The occurrence of more than one form, as several alleles of a particular gene or winged and wingless forms of the same species.
- Crystallization of a compound in at least two distinct forms.
- The state or property of being various.
- The quality or condition of being various or varied; diversity:
- A number or collection of varied things, especially of a particular group; an assortment:
- Something that is distinguished from others of the same kind by a specific characteristic or set of characteristics:
- The state of being various or manifold:
- A large number:
- (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
- Quality of being miscellaneous.
- The quality or state of being heterogeneous.
- The quality or condition of being diverse:
- The condition of having or including people from different ethnicities and social backgrounds:
- A variety or assortment:
- A principle of investment management that calls for spreading investments across a number of different assets, securities, and industries. Diversi-fication is important because it reduces the investor’s risk because each asset class is likely to have different risks. Diversification also can occur within asset classes, such as buying equities of both small companies and large companies, which typically move in different cyclical patterns. Companies may also diversify by selling different products or by entering different industries. A principle of investment management that calls for spreading investments across a number of different assets, securities, and industries. Diversi-fication is important because it reduces the investor’s risk because each asset class is likely to have different risks. Diversification also can occur within asset classes, such as buying equities of both small companies and large companies, which typically move in different cyclical patterns. Companies may also diversify by selling different products or by entering different industries.
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Another word for variegation
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- An arc of spectral colors, usually identified as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, that appears in the sky opposite the sun as a result of the refractive dispersion of sunlight in drops of rain or mist.
- A similar arc or band, as one produced by a prism or by iridescence.
- A graded display of colors.
- The entire range over which some measurable property of a physical system or phenomenon can vary, such as the frequency of sound, the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, or the mass of specific kinds of particles.
- A graphic or photographic representation of such a measurable range; a spectrogram.
- A range of radio frequencies assigned by a regulatory agency for use by a given group or organization.
- The quality or state of being iridescent.
- The state of being striated or having striae.
- One of a number of parallel lines or scratches on the surface of a rock that were inscribed by rock fragments embedded in the base of a glacier as it moved across the rock.
- The form taken by striae.
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