het´er|o|ge´ne|ous|ly

het´er|o|ge´ne|ous|ly
het|er|o|ge|ne|ous «HEHT uhr uh JEE nee uhs, -JEEN yuhs», adjective.
1. different in kind; not at all similar; unlike; varied: »

She invited a heterogeneous group of people to her party. The heterogeneous qualities of the human race are the raw material of history. I had indulged myself with an evening of reading as heterogeneous as the page of a dictionary (J. W. R. Scott).

 SYNONYM(S): incongruous.
2. made up of unlike elements or parts; miscellaneous: »

Tin cans, old shoes, and papers made a heterogeneous mass of rubbish in the yard. This world is a heterogeneous aggregate, no doubt, but its parts are bound together by various economic or cultural interactions (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists).

3. Mathematics. of different kinds ad having no common integral divisor except 1.
4. of different degrees or dimensions.
╂[< Medieval Latin heterogeneus (with English -ous), ultimately < Greek héteros another + génos kind, race, stock]
–het´er|o|ge´ne|ous|ly, adverb.
–het´er|o|ge´ne|ous|ness, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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