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Dive: A dive is when a player embellishes contact made against him in order to draw a penalty, however, sometimes this ends up in a penalty being called against the diving player.

Agricultural Diversification: A system of farming that encourages production of a variety of plants and animals and their products as opposed to monoculture or large-scale specialization. Advocates of diversification arg . . . View Full Definition

Naive Diversification: A strategy whereby an investor simply invests in a number of different assets in the hope that the variance of the expected return on the portfolio is lowered. In contrast, mathematical prog . . . View Full Definition

Principle Of Diversification: That portfolios of different sorts of assets differently correlated with one another will have negligible unsystematic risk. In other words, unsystematic risks disappear in diversified portf . . . View Full Definition

Species Diversity: The number of living species on Earth.

Diversity: The different types of organisms that occur in a community.

Diversity Gradient: A regular change in diversity correlated with a geographic space or gradient of some environmental factor

Ecosystem Diversity: The diversity of biological communities and their physical environment. Diversity is determined by the species composition, physical structure and processes within an ecosystem. This is the . . . View Full Definition

Markowitz Diversification: A strategy that seeks to combine in a portfolio assets with returns that are less than perfectly positively correlated, in an effort to lower portfolio risk (variance) without sacrificing re . . . View Full Definition

Magic Of Diversification: The effective reduction of risk (variance) of a portfolio, achieved without reduction to expected returns through the combination of assets with low or negative correlations (covariances). R . . . View Full Definition