Literary notes about Heterogeneous (AI summary)
The word “heterogeneous” is employed in literature to denote a composite made up of distinct and often contrasting elements, a theme that spans a variety of disciplines and contexts. In sociological and psychological texts, for example, it describes diverse crowds or amalgamations of personality traits—one text refers to a “psychological crowd” composed of heterogeneous elements [1], while another discusses how “heterogeneous personality” may manifest in extreme cases [2, 3]. In scientific and technical writings, the term is used to contrast differing materials or reactions, as seen in discussions of metal precipitations in solutions [4] or electrical phenomena in circuits [5, 6, 7]. Literary works also harness the evocative power of the word to illustrate complex mixtures, such as contrasting narratives [8] or narratives that seem as assorted as “the witches’ cauldron” [9]. This breadth of application—from describing social compositions [10, 11, 12] to detailing physical processes [13, 14, 15]—demonstrates how “heterogeneous” has come to symbolize the rich interplay of diverse parts within a single entity.
- The psychological crowd is a provisional being formed of heterogeneous elements, which for a moment are combined, exactly as the cells wh
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Whatever the cause of heterogeneous personality may be, we find the extreme examples of it in the psychopathic temperament.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - [Pg 122] temperament when it is thoroughly pronounced, we have exquisite examples of heterogeneous personality.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Various metals and spars may then be precipitated from aqueous solutions among the interstices of this heterogeneous mass.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - Laws of the dynamic intensity of a current in a heterogeneous circuit.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Unequal temperatures at the different junctions of a heterogeneous circuit.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Currents produced by heat in heterogeneous circuits.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - An important event then happened of which the following Blackwood article, in the tone heterogeneous, is the substance and result.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - The contents of his book seemed to be as heterogeneous as those of the witches’ cauldron in Macbeth.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving - Gustave Le Bon thus classifies the different types of crowds (aggregations): A. Heterogeneous crowds 1.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The heterogeneous crowd is composed of tout le monde , of people like you, like me, like the first passer-by.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - In sociology, Gumplowicz arrived at the notions of a "natural social process" and of "reciprocal action of heterogeneous elements"
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Analysis of heterogeneous light by the prisms.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The calorific radiations emanating from different sources, have all the characters of differently colored heterogeneous rays of light.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Effects of differently colored mediums upon heterogeneous light.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
