Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of parts that are the same; uniform in structure or composition:
- adjective Of the same or similar nature or kind.
- adjective Mathematics Consisting of terms of the same degree or elements of the same dimension.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the same kind; essentially like; of the same nature: said especially of parts of one whole: opposed to heterogeneous.
- Having parts of only one kind; composed of similar parts or congruous elements. See
heterogeneous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to
heterogeneous - adjective (Alg.) Possessing the same number of factors of a given kind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of the same kind;
alike ,similar . - adjective Having the same
composition throughout; ofuniform make-up. - adjective chemistry in the same
state of matter . - adjective mathematics Of which the properties of a smaller set apply to the whole;
scalable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective all of the same or similar kind or nature
Etymologies
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Examples
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It must be noticed that Newton did not understand what we call a homogeneous spectrum; he did not produce it, and does not point out in his writings the conditions for producing it.
The Wave Theory of Light Lord Kelvin 1909
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Muslims hate mosques and blow them up constantly and all the Arabs really want to live in homogeneous open-air prisons with limited access to food, water, and electricity.
Another Iraq War Propaganda Nugget Bites the Dust « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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It could also reflect the desire of blacks to live in homogeneous neighborhoods.
I Distrust Robert Putnam, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Its primary goal is to provide future long-term homogeneous observations of temperature and precipitation that can be coupled to long-term historical observations for the detection and attribution of present and future climate change.
Archive 2010-01-01 EliRabett 2010
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Its primary goal is to provide future long-term homogeneous observations of temperature and precipitation that can be coupled to long-term historical observations for the detection and attribution of present and future climate change.
Tom's trick and experimental design EliRabett 2010
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And rather than resulting in homogeneous groups of producers and consumers, a great degree of specialization and diversity is achieved, allowing for a wide degree of expression and redundancy throughout the network.
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Moreover, the style of the several Tales, which will be considered in a future page (§ iii.), so far from being homogeneous is heterogeneous in the extreme.
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Someone who thinks of either larger area as being homogeneous is likely to do the equivalent of writing about an Irish farm girl from Dublin; or a big-city girl from the Orkney Islands.
Quiet Sunday 2005
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The reason of this is that the middle must be homogeneous, past when the extremes are past, future when they are future, coming to be when they are coming-to-be, actually existent when they are actually existent; and there cannot be a middle term homogeneous with extremes respectively past and future.
Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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I’m not bullshitting you, I’m pretty sure most economists would admit such. there’s real data that says, we’re becoming more conservative about trusting federal government PRECISELY because we stay in homogeneous groups – tight communities of people just like us. this happens past race, past sexual orientation.
mab commented on the word homogeneous
Don't forget to pronounce the second "e."
January 9, 2007
jaltcoh commented on the word homogeneous
I prefer to pronounce it huh-MAH-jinis.
April 24, 2008