heterogeneous

IPA: hɛtɝʌdʒˈinjʌs

Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
(mathematics) Incommensurable because of different kinds.
(physics, chemistry) Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
(chemistry) Visibly consisting of different components.
(computing) 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.

Examples of "heterogeneous" in Sentences

You can see the different between two substances its called heterogeneous mixture.
Mightn't a fair bit of the action be in heterogeneous technologies for repressing extreme preferences?
- so think of entities as a table of tables - they use the term heterogeneous containment to describe this idea.
Make the category less heterogeneous, in other words, and it may actually start to have some scientific integrity.
I'm not sure I heard "heterogeneous" -- one of the terms that computer companies like to use even when they don't really mean it -- uttered once during the five-hour broadcast.
Anthropogenic biomes are not simple vegetation categories, and are best characterized as heterogeneous landscape mosaics combining a variety of different land uses and land covers.
I'm not sure that I heard "heterogeneous" -- one of the terms that computer companies like to use, even when they don't really mean it -- uttered once during the five-hour broadcast.
Menschen (The optical image in heterogeneous media and the dioptrics of the human crystalline lens), 1908, which was awarded the Centenary Gold Medal of the Swedish Medical Association.
The good and the bad parts of our lives do not interlock with reassuring neatness across the course of a lifetime; instead they sit together in heterogeneous disarray, elbowing one another like distant ancestors told to bunch up tight for a family photograph.