noun
Meaning 1
Diversity
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
heterogeneity
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noun
Meaning 2
A composition of diverse parts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The quality of a substance which is not uniform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: heterogeneousness
Antonyms: homogeneity
Broader terms: nonuniformity
Narrower terms: diverseness, diversity, multifariousness, variety
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: хетерогенност (heterogennost) — composition of diverse parts
- Bulgarian: разнородност (raznorodnost) — composition of diverse parts
- Catalan: heterogeneïtat — composition of diverse parts
- Chinese Mandarin: 異質性 /异质性 (yìzhìxìng) — composition of diverse parts
- Czech: různorodost — composition of diverse parts
- Dutch: heterogeniteit — composition of diverse parts
- Estonian: heterogeensus — composition of diverse parts
- Finnish: heterogeenisyys — composition of diverse parts
- French: hétérogénéité — composition of diverse parts
- Galician: heteroxeneidade — composition of diverse parts
- German: Heterogenität — composition of diverse parts
- Italian: eterogeneità — composition of diverse parts
- Kazakh: гетерогенділік (geterogendılık) — composition of diverse parts
- Kazakh: әртектілік (ärtektılık) — composition of diverse parts
- Macedonian: разно́ликост (raznólikost) — composition of diverse parts
- Macedonian: хетероге́ност (heterogénost) — composition of diverse parts
- Macedonian: разно́родност (raznórodnost) — composition of diverse parts
- Polish: niejednorodność — composition of diverse parts
- Portuguese: heterogeneidade — composition of diverse parts
- Russian: гетерогенность (geterogennostʹ) — composition of diverse parts
- Spanish: heterogeneidad — composition of diverse parts
- Tagalog: dam-uri — composition of diverse parts
- Ukrainian: різнорідність (riznoridnistʹ) — composition of diverse parts
- Ukrainian: гетерогенність (heterohennistʹ) — composition of diverse parts
- Chinese Mandarin: 異質性 /异质性 (yìzhìxìng) — nonuniform quality of a substance
- Dutch: heterogeniteit — nonuniform quality of a substance
- Finnish: heterogeenisyys — nonuniform quality of a substance
- Greek: ανομοιογένεια (anomoiogéneia) — nonuniform quality of a substance