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Word: heterogeneous
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Adjective:
- chemistry: Visibly consisting of different components.
- Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
- (''information technology''): A network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture. Alternatively, a data resource with multiple types of formats.
- mathematics Incommensurable because of different kinds.
- physics: Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
Source: Wiktionary
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