Cannibalization or cannibalisation may refer to: * Cannibalization (fiction), adapting, borrowing or stealing plots, characters, themes or ideas from one story for use in another or from one medium to another *

Cannibalization (marketing) In marketing strategy, cannibalization is a reduction in sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product when the same company introduces a new product. Description In e-commerce, some companies intentionally cannibalize their reta ...

, the introduction of a new product that harms sales of an older product by the same producer *

Cannibalization (parts) Cannibalization of machine parts, in the maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with interchangeable parts, refers to the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device, rather than from inventor ...

, the use of parts from one device to repair another

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