Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of homogeneity.
- noun Something that is not homogeneous or uniform.
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- noun uncountable The state of being
inhomogeneous - noun countable Something that lacks
homogeneity
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- noun the quality of being inhomogeneous
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Examples
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The reason for this starts with surface inhomogeneities that lead to nucleation of the deposition process in one spot, after which ohmic and transport effects lead to further amplification of this inhomogeneity.
Archive 2010-09-01 Venkat's Energy Blog 2010
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Quantum uncertainty fluctuations in the field coupled with local regions of curvature, where this reheating had some measure of inhomogeneity, or as observed from a central location an anisotropy, that is frozen out in what we observe now.
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The reason for this starts with surface inhomogeneities that lead to nucleation of the deposition process in one spot, after which ohmic and transport effects lead to further amplification of this inhomogeneity.
A Brief History of Batteries- Part 2 Venkat's Energy Blog 2010
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Eschenbach proceeds to set out what an “inhomogeneity” is and show that the GHCN must have done something other than they claimed to have done to make the adjustments they did.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some of the “Homogenized” Temperature Data is False 2009
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The results of our analysis, together with the degree of small-scale inhomogeneity apparent in the images, call into question the assumptions underlying traditional methodologies for interpretation of nebular spectroscopy.
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According to recent work by David Wiltshire, dark matter can be explained away purely within general relativity by taking into account the inhomogeneity of the universe.
Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008
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So, for example, if they see a step change, they take this as an indication of inhomogeneity.
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More on topic – is there a standard definition for inhomogeneity?
Hansen and the "Destruction of Creation" « Climate Audit 2007
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There is a hiatus around 1990 – does this represent an inhomogeneity?
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In particular, if you try to set up a field that gives rise to inhomogeneous negative energy, the inhomogeneity in the (negative) pressure will give rise to large non-gravitational forces that will likely convert some of the potential energy in the “dark energy” field to kinetic energy, which will give a contribution to the gravitational field of the opposite sign.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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