heterogeneous

Meaning

Adjective

• Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
• Incommensurable because of different kinds.
• Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
• Visibly consisting of different components.
• 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.

Related

Opposite words

• homogeneous

Origin

• From Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερογενής, from ἕτερος + γένος. Compare hetero- and -ous.