heterogeneous

Word family

het·e·ro·ge·ne·ous /ˌhetərəʊˈdʒiːniəs $ -roʊ-/ (also heterogenous /ˌhetəˈrɒdʒənəs◂ $ -ˈrɑː-/) adjectiveadj formal

DIFFERENTconsisting of parts or members that are very different from each other 由全然不同的部分 [成员]组成的，混杂的 OPP homogeneous

a heterogeneous collection of buildings

风格各异的一组建筑

—heterogeneously adverbadv

—heterogeneity /ˌhetərəʊdʒəˈniːəti $ -roʊ-/ noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

heterogeneous• We have already made the point that most political cultures are heterogeneous.• Both antibodies are a largely heterogeneous family.• In the first stage, we primarily dealt with homogeneous networks, then moved to inter-networks that are heterogeneous in nature.• Young next to old, doing-well next to down-and-out: a heterogeneous mass present for its own mutually exclusive reasons.• The U.S. has a very heterogeneous population.• Services is simply too heterogeneous to be an interesting category.

Origin heterogeneous

(1600-1700) Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Greek, from hetero- ( → HETERO-) + genos “type”

het·e·ro·ge·ne·ous adjectiveadj

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