title: Diversity
text: # Diversity
  
  Diversity, diversify, or diverse may refer to:
  
  ## Business
  
  * Diversity (business), the inclusion of people of different identities (ethnicity, gender, age) in the workforce
  * Diversity marketing, marketing communication targeting diverse customers
  * Supplier diversity, the use of diverse suppliers
  
  ## Politics
  
  * 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
  * Functional diversity, a term in geography
  * Linguistic diversity
  * Diversity (mathematics), a generalization of metric space
  
  ### Biology
  
  * Biodiversity, degree of variation of life forms within an ecosystem
  * Crop diversity, the variance in genetic and phenotypic characteristics of plants used in agriculture
  * Diversity index, a statistic to assess the diversity of a population
  * 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
  * Diversity (journal), an academic journal published by MDPI
  
  ## 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
  
  * Diversity (album), a 2010 reggae album by Gentleman
  * Diversity (dance troupe), an English dance troupe based in London
  * Diversity FM, a radio station in Lancaster, England
  * Diverse (rapper)
  * "Diverse", a song by Charlie Parker
  
  ### Other
  
  * Diversity University, a virtual reality system for education
  