Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being heterogeneous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dissimilarity of structure in different parts of an organism.
- noun The character or state of being heterogeneous; composition from dissimilar parts; difference in kind or quality; disparateness; dissimilarity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.
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- noun uncountable
Diversity - noun countable A
composition ofdiverse parts
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
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Examples
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Nate Silver's TED talk about race and heterogeneity is pretty strong throughout (though the reach of some of the conclusions exceeds the grasp of the data), but I most enjoyed the point about 8 minutes into the clip where he talks about the implications of cul de sacs in (sub) urban planning.
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So I agree that heterogeneity is an important cause of the failure of collusion in the classroom.
Collusion in the Classroom, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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You know, I’ve been putting off reading Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” because it’s LONG … but between his passing and the fact that nearly every poster here thinks that white cultural heterogeneity is just A-ok, I’m going to have to dig into it tonight.
Twilight Lexicon » Kristen Stewart and Anna Kendrick Featured in Controversial Vanity Fair Issue 2010
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Figure 1 illustrates this first energy transition, the growth in energy use quantities, using the minimum degree of representation of spatial heterogeneity, that is, by differentiating between industrialized and developing countries.
Energy transitions 2008
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We can see this by introducing the notion of heterogeneity to entrepreneurship as well as capital itself.
Mises Dailies 2009
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One must unearth the silences of history, the voices of the marginalized and the forgotten, the heterogeneity which is buried by singular versions of history.
Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2009
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In what you will see below, I take Solow's emphasis on "heterogeneity" a lot farther than Solow had in mind.
An Alternative to Hydraulic Macro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One must unearth the silences of history, the voices of the marginalized and the forgotten, the heterogeneity which is buried by singular versions of history.
Archive 2009-02-01 kesav 2009
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The author goes on to note that such "heterogeneity" can result in a failure to compare "apples to apples."
On "diversity purists" and "vulnerability to stereotype threat." Ann Althouse 2007
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For all the "heterogeneity" the Black population in the US may have and I know that, linguistically at least, there is real and heterogeneity in African-American Vernacular English/AAVE, even though to most ears it sounds like one common dialect, it's nothing compared to the broad spectrum of human diversity Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America have to offer.
On "diversity purists" and "vulnerability to stereotype threat." Ann Althouse 2007
mn commented on the word heterogeneity
the paucity and heterogeneity of the available clinical research
January 13, 2010