heterogenous

adjective

het·​er·​og·​e·​nous ˌhe-tə-ˈrä-jə-nəs How to pronounce heterogenous (audio)

Examples of heterogenous in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Despite the benefits of successful multi-cloud strategies—most notably, delivering transformational apps and services to customers and employees faster—managing applications and workloads across heterogenous environments presents its own set of unique challenges. Samantha Reid, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 Aging is a heterogenous, unpredictable process mitigated by old-fashioned advantages in life and luck. Anna Chodos, STAT, 4 Oct. 2023 But Wright, who aspires to attend Stanford and study computer science, laments that the decision may make elite colleges - including the school of his dreams - much less heterogenous. Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023 Elizondo would try to accomplish what others had failed to do for nearly 80 years: convince the intractable and infinitely heterogenous United States government to finally, fully spill on the topic of UFOs. Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023 Mukhopadhyay had shown that Earth’s mantle is heterogenous, with at least two separate sources, and that those sources are at least 4.5 billion years old. Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021 Intel’s Optane memory was a big factor in the development of the CXL interface for memory that allow heterogenous memory with various performance and endurance characteristics to be part of a common memory pool. Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 The picture that is emerging is one of a heterogenous condition that is different in every person because the genetic factors involved differ in every person. Pamela Feliciano, STAT, 22 Aug. 2022 This policy orchestration approach would deliver the level of integration required to connect heterogenous (often incompatible) systems and establish a consistent control plane for identity management. Eric Olden, Forbes, 8 June 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1695, in the meaning defined above

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“Heterogenous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heterogenous. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Medical Definition

heterogenous

adjective
het·​er·​og·​e·​nous ˌhet-ə-ˈräj-ə-nəs How to pronounce heterogenous (audio)
1
: originating in an outside source
especially : derived from another species
heterogenous bone grafts
2

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