Heterogeneous \Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous\, a. [Gr. ?; ? + ? race, kind;
akin to E. kin: cf. F. h['e]t['e]rog[`e]ne.]
Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of
different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to
homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of
a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of
which it is made up. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
heterogeneous
adj 1: consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or
nature; "the population of the United States is vast
and heterogeneous" [syn: heterogenous] [ant: homogeneous]
2: originating outside the body [syn: heterogenous] [ant: autogenous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "heterogeneous":
amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, at odds,
at variance, blended, combined, complex, composite, compound,
compounded, conglomerate, contrary, contrasted, contrasting,
dappled, departing, deviating, deviative, different,
differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant,
discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate,
dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent,
diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, eclectic, equivocal,
fifty-fifty, half-and-half, in disagreement, inaccordant,
incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant,
indiscriminate, inharmonious, intricate, ironic, irreconcilable,
jumbled, many, many and various, many-sided, medley, mingled,
miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multifarious,
multinational, multiracial, of all sorts, patchy, pluralistic,
poles apart, poles asunder, promiscuous, scrambled, separate,
separated, several, sundry, syncretic, thrown together,
unconformable, unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated,
various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
heterogeneous
Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind.
Often used in the context of distributed systems that may be
running different operating systems or network protocols
(a heterogeneous network).
For examples see: interoperable database, middleware.
Constrast homogeneous.
(1999-05-06)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
heterogenous
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