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The correct spelling is heterogeneous.
How to pronounce heterogeneous
/hɛ.tə.ɹə.ˈdʒiː.niː.əs/
adjectiveIPA: /hɛ.tə.ɹə.ˈdʒiː.niː.əs/
Say it like: Het-ero-jen-eow-s
The correct spelling is heterogeneous. Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts. For example: "He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books."
Usage Examples
“He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books.”
Definition
adjective
- 1.Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
- 2.Incommensurable because of different kinds.
- 3.Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
- 4.Visibly consisting of different components.
- 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.
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