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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heterogeneous \Het'er*o*ge"ne*ous\, adjective [Gr. ?; ? + ? race, kind; akin to E. kin: cf. F. h['e]t['e]rog['e]ne.] Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. -- {Het'er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Het'er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness}, noun
{Heterogeneous nouns} (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and h[ae]c loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc c[ae]lum, neuter in the singular; hi c[ae]li, masculine in the plural.
{Heterogeneous quantities} (Math.), such quantities as are incapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, and surfaces and solids.
{Heterogeneous surds} (Math.), surds having different radical signs.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
heterogeneous
adjective
1: consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous" [syn: {heterogenous}] [ant: {homogeneous}]
2: originating outside the body [syn: {heterogenous}] [ant: {autogenous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "heterogeneous": amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, at odds, at variance, blended, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, dappled, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, indiscriminate, inharmonious, intricate, ironic, irreconcilable, jumbled, many, many and various, many-sided, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, of all sorts, patchy, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, promiscuous, scrambled, separate, separated, several, sundry, syncretic, thrown together, unconformable, unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
heterogeneous Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of {distributed systems} that may be running different {operating systems} or network {protocols} (a {heterogeneous network}). For examples see: {interoperable database}, {middleware}. Constrast {homogeneous}. (1999-05-06)
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