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Heterogeneous

//ˌhɛt.(ə.)ɹəˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.

    "He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books."

  2. 2
    Incommensurable because of different kinds.
  3. 3
    Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
  4. 4
    Visibly consisting of different components.
  5. 5
    Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture; alternatively, of a data resource with multiple types of formats.
Adjective
  1. 1
    originating outside the body wordnet
  2. 2
    consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature wordnet

Etymology

From Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερογενής (heterogenḗs, “of different kinds”), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + γένος (génos, “kind”). Compare hetero- and -ous.

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