Usually means: Consisting of diverse, different components.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word heterogeneous:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterogeneous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. heterogeneous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heterogeneous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heterogeneous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heterogeneous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heterogeneous, heterogeneous: Wordnik
  7. heterogeneous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heterogeneous: Wiktionary
  9. heterogeneous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heterogeneous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heterogeneous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heterogeneous: Dictionary.com
  13. heterogeneous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heterogeneous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Heterogeneous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Heterogeneous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heterogeneous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. heterogeneous: Rhymezone
  19. heterogeneous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heterogeneous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. heterogeneous: Free Dictionary
  22. heterogeneous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. heterogeneous: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Heterogeneous: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  4. heterogeneous: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterogeneous: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. heterogeneous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Heterogeneous: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. heterogeneous: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. heterogeneous: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See heterogeneously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
adjective:  (mathematics) Incommensurable because of different kinds.
adjective:  (physics, chemistry) Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
adjective:  (chemistry) Visibly consisting of different components.
adjective:  (computing) 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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