单词 | heterogeneity |
释义 | heterogeneityn. The quality or condition of being heterogeneous: a. Difference or diversity in kind from other things. b. Composition from diverse elements or parts; multifarious composition. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] manifoldnesseOE serenessa1300 diversityc1340 sundernessc1390 diversenessa1400 seretya1400 variancea1400 sundryhead?a1425 sundrinessa1450 variety1548 multivariety1601 diversifying1611 inconstancy1646 heterogeneity1651 variousness1651 heterogeneousness1662 variegation1668 multifariousness1684 miscellaneousness1727 miscellaneity1778 versatility1802 omnifariousness1806 motleyness1819 many-headedness1847 heterology1854 unhomogeneity1862 diversitude1870 variedness1897 polycentricity1915 inhomogeneity1916 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 109 In the artificiall processe of manifesting the heterogeneity of water. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 304 To multiply Simple Surdes observe their Homogeniety or Heterogeniety. 1779 Ramsden in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 421 The advantage..of not being disturbed by the heterogeneity of light. 1784 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. 111 As to the Chinese..its great Heterogeneity in respect of other Languages. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iv. §58. 219 Evolution is from a state of indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a state of definite coherent heterogeneity. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) vii. 194 In the members of the Olympian court itself we discern every kind of heterogeneity. c. With a and plural. A heterogeneous element or constituent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > heterogeneous element or person heterogeneal1651 heterogeneity1651 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋19 In their crudities, heterogenieties & impurities. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 414 Mica, iron ore, and other heterogeneities are more frequent in it. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 208 So many heterogeneities cast together into the fermenting-vat. d. law of heterogeneity n. Logic see quot. ΚΠ 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic iv. 91 About the second principle, the Law of Heterogeneity, there is no dispute. According to this law, things the most similar must, in some respects, be dissimilar or heterogeneous; and, consequently, any Concept, however large its Intension may be, may still have that Intension increased, without thereby descending to individuals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1651 |
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