heterogeneity

[Eng. hetero gen (e); ity.] 1. The quality or state of being heterogeneous; opposition, contrariety, or di imilitude of nature or qualities. "A heterogeneity of the component parts."-Boyle: Works , iii. 298. 2. An opposite, contrary, or di imilar part. "The same wood, distilled into a retort, does yield far other heterogeneities ."- Boyle . hět-er-o-gé-ně-ous, a. [Gr. hetero genes = of another kind; pref. hetero-, and genos =race.] I. Ord. Lang.: Differing in kind; mixed; various. "To select from the vast and heterogeneous ma such papers as immediately bear on his own researches." J.S. Brewer: English Studies , p. 12. II. Technically : 1. Bot .: Having more than one nature or substance. ( Harvey .) 2. Math .: A polynomial is heterogeneous when all its terms have not the same number of literal factors: thus, a2+ 2bc3y is a heterogeneous expre ion. IMG:content-1149.png:[blocks in formation]