Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being homogeneous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being homogeneous; likeness or correspondence of parts or qualities; composition from like parts; agreement in elements or characteristics; congruity of constitution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
homogeneousness .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
homogeneous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature
- noun the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure
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Examples
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In both of the long exerts that you quote, the authors are taking a position along the lines of “surely there are genetic traits that link populations together because genetic diversity and homogeneity is such a key part of evolution, “race” is a problem category.”
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In both of the long exerts that you quote, the authors are taking a position along the lines of “surely there are genetic traits that link populations together because genetic diversity and homogeneity is such a key part of evolution, “race” is a problem category – but we should celebrate and study genetic diversity.”
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It's difficult to argue that all this Ivy League homogeneity is a bad thing.
Leah Finnegan: The Court Of The Ivy League? Leah Finnegan 2010
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And in the end, some part of everything will come to define our reality (homogeneity is net bad, anyway).
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The homogeneity is a serious problem, however, and new techniques had to be invented to increase precision.
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One of the examples Dr. Bentley mentioned that stuck with me was how when we go to buy a pair of glasses, we tend to buy glasses that we’d seen people wearing on the way to the store (frequency dependent bias, which results in homogeneity, which in turn results in something becoming contagious – or to me, a trend).
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One of the examples Dr. Bentley mentioned that stuck with me was how when we go to buy a pair of glasses, we tend to buy glasses that we’d seen people wearing on the way to the store (frequency dependent bias, which results in homogeneity, which in turn results in something becoming contagious – or to me, a trend).
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Instead, it looks like the key variable is voter homogeneity, which is in turn a strongly negative function of population.
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In mathe - matics, the feature of “evenness of structure” that we have in mind, is nowadays termed homogeneity, and is defined below.
SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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When we speak of God's indwelling in man, we predicate that community of nature which the writer of Gen. ii expresses by saying that God created man in His own image; we predicate, _i. e._, what we already called homogeneity -- likeness of substance -- and not identity, which is a very different thing.
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer
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