heterogeneous Definition
hetero·geneous (het′ər ə′jē′nē əs)
heterogeneous Related Forms
het′ero′·gene′ity (--jə nē′ə tē) noun pl. -·ties
het′ero′·ge′neous·ly adverb
het′ero′·ge′neous·ness noun
heterogeneous Synonyms
heterogeneous
modif.
heterogeneous Usage Examples
Preposition: with
respect: On the other side of the market, firms also are heterogeneous with respect to their marginal productivity of labor.
Used with adjective complement
- become: At higher levels in the walls ' B ' becomes more heterogeneous, suggesting some re-use of material.
- remain: The Reactionary Nature of Imperialism The world, however, still remains very heterogeneous.
Modifies a noun
- catalysis: One of the key technologies which is helping to achieve these goals is heterogeneous catalysis.
- nucleation: One way to avoid freezing is to discourage heterogeneous nucleation.
- catalyst: Work has also started to study the use of heterogeneous catalysts to which the OFM reactor should be ideally suited.
- aggregate: Unit 4246 was classified as fill, type 4.5, and comprises loose heterogeneous aggregates.
- repository: The project developed a software toolkit to mediate the discovery of deep resources in distributed and heterogeneous repositories.
- metadata: This hampered our ability to analyze how users deal with large result sets from heterogeneous metadata.
Modifying Another Word
- ethnically: Nonetheless, the population is, in fact, ethnically heterogeneous.
- clinically: Two clinically heterogeneous trials are included, therefore a metaanalysis was considered inappropriate.
- genetically: It is a genetically heterogeneous condition which shows both recessive and dominant modes of inheritance.
- extremely: It seems clear that febrile convulsions make up an extremely heterogeneous group for which there is no single mode of inheritance.
- highly: Most web sites, on the other hand, are highly heterogeneous in many respects.
- increasingly: However, achieving these objectives for all students was complicated by the increasingly heterogeneous nature of the intake to the apprenticeship program.
Preposition: in
- response: Cancer is far more heterogeneous in response to various individual drugs than are bacterial infections.
- nature: Insulin receptors may be heterogeneous in nature with differences occurring in their affinity and capacity for binding insulin molecules.
- term: Service characterisation and classification The services were homogeneous in terms of 'home treatment function ' but fairly heterogeneous in terms of other components.
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