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单词 heterogeneous
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Definition of heterogeneous in English:

heterogeneous

adjective ˌhɛt(ə)rə(ʊ)ˈdʒiːnɪəsˌhɛdərəˈdʒiniəs
  • 1Diverse in character or content.

    a large and heterogeneous collection
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Collectively, Antarctic studies have painted a picture of a biologically diverse and heterogeneous marine environment.
    • This study has limitations, including the small, heterogeneous population and data collection at a single site.
    • You would be hard-pressed to come up with a more heterogeneous collection of oddments.
    • Our sample is not formally representative of any specific population, but it approximates a heterogeneous collection of clinically referred youth.
    • Apparently, Canada succeeded where the U.S. had failed in assembling multiculturally diverse, heterogeneous groups of people.
    • First, it is difficult to fix categories in advance for such a heterogeneous collection of work without forcing individual entries into often inappropriate pigeon holes.
    • To manage the affairs of a small homogenous state is relatively simple as compared to the affairs of a heterogeneous state of continental dimension.
    • However, in a heterogeneous habitat diverse elements may influence movement.
    • Almost two decades later, it is still hard to quantify such settlements, as the city's topography accentuates their heterogeneous character and formal diversity.
    • In general, blues festivals attract a very diverse, heterogeneous audience.
    • They were a racially and ethnically heterogeneous group; 84 percent of the children were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, and a majority read at or below grade level.
    • To be prepared to teach all children in the schools of today and tomorrow, teachers must have an understanding of the diversity present in heterogeneous classrooms.
    • The narrow inclusion and validity criteria stated in the protocol ensured that studies included would be valid and less likely to be heterogeneous or diverse.
    • Can one really expect what is in reality a globally heterogeneous collection of movements to have a single message’?
    • Surrounding these core units was a heterogeneous coalition as diverse in their loyalties as they were in their equipment, training, and combat capabilities.
    • He created a nationalist and revolutionary rhetoric in order to transform the heterogeneous state into a unitary entity.
    • Distributed widely as they are in the political spectrum, these heterogeneous groups represent very diverse outlooks and interests as a whole.
    • Clayton's proposed methodology for cultural studies serves as a wide umbrella for a heterogeneous collection of individual essays.
    • For this brief review, I have taken a pragmatic approach, collecting information from heterogeneous sources, with very different degrees of reliability.
    • The population is heterogeneous and cosmopolitan to a degree almost unknown elsewhere.
    Synonyms
    diverse, diversified, varied, varying, miscellaneous, assorted, mixed, sundry, contrasting, disparate, different, differing, divergent, unrelated, variegated, wide-ranging
    motley
    literary divers, myriad, legion
    rare contrastive
    1. 1.1Chemistry Of or denoting a process involving substances in different phases (solid, liquid, or gaseous)
      heterogeneous catalysis
      Example sentencesExamples
      • My research interests are organic chemistry mechanisms, organometallic chemistry, and heterogeneous catalysis.
      • For this reason the process chosen is usually heterogeneous catalysis, because this keeps the cost and the number of process steps to a minimum.
      • Chemisorption plays an essential role in corrosion, heterogeneous catalysis, and electrochemistry.
      • The catalytic converter is a good example of a heterogeneous catalysis in action.
      • Abstract Sickle hemoglobin nucleation occurs in solution as a homogeneous process or on existing polymers in a heterogeneous process.
    2. 1.2Mathematics Incommensurable through being of different kinds, degrees, or dimensions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The heterogeneous variant should be counted twice, because statistically it is twice as likely as either of the homogeneous combinations.
      • If the rate ratio was heterogeneous, then the maximum-likelihood estimates of parameters under the free-ratio model were used to calculate d N and d S along each branch.
      • In this article, we implement a number of models (statistical distributions) for heterogeneous ratios among sites.
      • I explore the consequences of the logically heterogeneous character of exception phrase NPs for proof-theoretic accounts of quantifiers in natural language.
      • Since the variances in shell growth rate were heterogeneous, the data were square-root transformed before analysis to make variances homogeneous.

Usage

The correct spelling is heterogeneous, but a fairly common misspelling is heterogenous. The reason for the error probably relates to the pronunciation, which, in rapid speech, often misses out the extra e. Heterogenous is actually a different word, which is used in specialized medical and biological senses and means ‘originating outside the organism’

Derivatives

  • heterogeneously

  • adverb
    • Student participants were selected at random from 130 heterogeneously grouped students after signed consent was obtained.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Functionally equivalent genes may evolve heterogeneously across closely related taxa as a consequence of lineage-specific selective pressures.
      • Temperature altered the membrane properties homogeneously, whereas the ionophore increased order heterogeneously.
      • Leaf litter is heterogeneously distributed within and across forests.
      • There were bilingual and native English speakers, those who came from English-speaking homes, heterogeneously mixed in the participating classrooms.
  • heterogeneousness

  • noun
    • The floristic structure of these forests, their great heterogeneousness, seemed to push aside the hypothesis of extensive production as in Asia.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Another was their ability to forge illusory stylistic coherence despite their records' actual heterogeneousness.
      • The essence of existence is not unity, sameness and continuity, not homogenousness, but diversity and difference, heterogeneousness.
      • Present day processes of creating new economic environments seem to point more towards a large heterogeneousness of these social forms, hence of markets.
      • Here's an argument, inspired by Tocqueville, that we can assess the health of a democracy by examining the heterogeneousness of its culture.

Origin

Early 17th century: from medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Greek heterogenēs, from heteros 'other' + genos 'a kind'.

Rhymes

genius, homogeneous, ingenious
 
 

Definition of heterogeneous in US English:

heterogeneous

adjectiveˌhɛdərəˈdʒiniəsˌhedərəˈjēnēəs
  • 1Diverse in character or content.

    a large and heterogeneous collection
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He created a nationalist and revolutionary rhetoric in order to transform the heterogeneous state into a unitary entity.
    • To manage the affairs of a small homogenous state is relatively simple as compared to the affairs of a heterogeneous state of continental dimension.
    • Can one really expect what is in reality a globally heterogeneous collection of movements to have a single message’?
    • In general, blues festivals attract a very diverse, heterogeneous audience.
    • Clayton's proposed methodology for cultural studies serves as a wide umbrella for a heterogeneous collection of individual essays.
    • They were a racially and ethnically heterogeneous group; 84 percent of the children were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, and a majority read at or below grade level.
    • The narrow inclusion and validity criteria stated in the protocol ensured that studies included would be valid and less likely to be heterogeneous or diverse.
    • This study has limitations, including the small, heterogeneous population and data collection at a single site.
    • Apparently, Canada succeeded where the U.S. had failed in assembling multiculturally diverse, heterogeneous groups of people.
    • Our sample is not formally representative of any specific population, but it approximates a heterogeneous collection of clinically referred youth.
    • Almost two decades later, it is still hard to quantify such settlements, as the city's topography accentuates their heterogeneous character and formal diversity.
    • Surrounding these core units was a heterogeneous coalition as diverse in their loyalties as they were in their equipment, training, and combat capabilities.
    • However, in a heterogeneous habitat diverse elements may influence movement.
    • First, it is difficult to fix categories in advance for such a heterogeneous collection of work without forcing individual entries into often inappropriate pigeon holes.
    • Collectively, Antarctic studies have painted a picture of a biologically diverse and heterogeneous marine environment.
    • Distributed widely as they are in the political spectrum, these heterogeneous groups represent very diverse outlooks and interests as a whole.
    • To be prepared to teach all children in the schools of today and tomorrow, teachers must have an understanding of the diversity present in heterogeneous classrooms.
    • For this brief review, I have taken a pragmatic approach, collecting information from heterogeneous sources, with very different degrees of reliability.
    • The population is heterogeneous and cosmopolitan to a degree almost unknown elsewhere.
    • You would be hard-pressed to come up with a more heterogeneous collection of oddments.
    Synonyms
    diverse, diversified, varied, varying, miscellaneous, assorted, mixed, sundry, contrasting, disparate, different, differing, divergent, unrelated, variegated, wide-ranging
    1. 1.1Chemistry Of or denoting a process involving substances in different phases (solid, liquid, or gaseous).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • My research interests are organic chemistry mechanisms, organometallic chemistry, and heterogeneous catalysis.
      • Abstract Sickle hemoglobin nucleation occurs in solution as a homogeneous process or on existing polymers in a heterogeneous process.
      • For this reason the process chosen is usually heterogeneous catalysis, because this keeps the cost and the number of process steps to a minimum.
      • Chemisorption plays an essential role in corrosion, heterogeneous catalysis, and electrochemistry.
      • The catalytic converter is a good example of a heterogeneous catalysis in action.
    2. 1.2Mathematics Incommensurable through being of different kinds, degrees, or dimensions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In this article, we implement a number of models (statistical distributions) for heterogeneous ratios among sites.
      • Since the variances in shell growth rate were heterogeneous, the data were square-root transformed before analysis to make variances homogeneous.
      • If the rate ratio was heterogeneous, then the maximum-likelihood estimates of parameters under the free-ratio model were used to calculate d N and d S along each branch.
      • I explore the consequences of the logically heterogeneous character of exception phrase NPs for proof-theoretic accounts of quantifiers in natural language.
      • The heterogeneous variant should be counted twice, because statistically it is twice as likely as either of the homogeneous combinations.

Usage

The correct spelling for the word meaning ‘diverse in character or content’ is heterogeneous, but a fairly common misspelling is heterogenous. The reason for the error probably relates to the pronunciation, which, in rapid speech, often skims over the fifth syllable as if to skip the e. Take care to note that heterogenous is a different word, which is used in specialized medical and biological senses and means ‘originating outside the organism.’

Origin

Early 17th century: from medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Greek heterogenēs, from heteros ‘other’ + genos ‘a kind’.

 
 
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