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Word: heterogeneous (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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Adjective:

  • chemistry: Visibly consisting of different components.
  • Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
  • (''information technology''): A network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture. Alternatively, a data resource with multiple types of formats.
  • mathematics Incommensurable because of different kinds.
  • physics: Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.

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