heterogeneous.
Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
Meaning & usage
Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books.
Incommensurable because of different kinds.
Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
Visibly consisting of different components.
Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture; alternatively, of a data resource with multiple types of formats.
Where this word comes from
From Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερογενής (heterogenḗs, “of different kinds”), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + γένος (génos, “kind”). Compare hetero- and -ous.
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