Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In biology, characterized by indirect development; with metamorphosis or alternation of generations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.
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- adjective genetics derived from a different
individual orspecies - adjective Alternative spelling of
heterogeneous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature
- adjective originating outside the body
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Examples
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Parents should also keep in mind that autism is a "heterogenous" disorder, Dawson said.
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In particular two new pieces of thinking have been changing the markets: servers, powered by smaller, less energy-hungry chips and multifunction "heterogenous" chips that act as both central processor and graphics processor.
Fast Company 2010
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Have children draw (younger ones) and write using their 5 senses. treasure hunt for heterogenous groups. (multiaged?)
Do you have any craft or activity ideas? « Literacy Activities « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009
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One could, I suppose, work through the GDP data to get the output of private non-profits (a really heterogenous bunch of activities) and of government and through the BLS data to get employment, and then measure productivity per worker as
Matthew Yglesias » From Snark to a Serious Question: Non-profit Productivity 2009
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A major factor in that divergence has been the heterogeneity of the Legislature, which is the product of a large and heterogenous republic.
Law 2010
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What I find odd is the acceptance of the state as a boundary -- I've lived primarily in two very heterogenous states, Texas and Washington, and they are not fairly characterized by a sum over the entirety.
Moral and Mental Development, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If the crowd is too heterogenous, the reasoning becomes group think rather than collected wisdom.
The Wisdom of Crowds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One largely heterogenous field, however, is classical music.
Tunes For Thought SVGL 2009
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The specific controversy that has provoked this larger debate involves an experimental treatment for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a heterogenous group of recessive genetic syndromes in which females often have "masculinized" or "intersex" external genitalia.
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I hope OpenID becomes the core of a new distributed, heterogenous social network.
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