Defn: Heterogenous. [Obs.]
HETEROGENEAL
Het`er*o*ge"ne*al, a.
Defn: Heterogeneous.
HETEROGENEITY
Het`er*o*ge*ne"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. hétérogénéité.]
Defn: The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.
The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt.
Coleridge.
HETEROGENEOUS
Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous, a. Etym: [Gr. kin: cf. F. hétérogène.]
Defn: Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; — opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. — Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. — Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n. Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and hæc loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc cælum, neuter in the singular; hi cæli, masculine in the plural. — Heterogeneous quantities (Math.), such quantities as are incapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, and surfaces and solids. — Heterogeneous surds (Math.), surds having different radical signs.
HETEROGENESIS
Het`er*o*gen"e*sis, n. Etym: [Hetero- + genesis.]
1. (Biol.)
Defn: Spontaneous generation, so called.