heterogeneity

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  1. noun The quality or state of being heterogeneous.

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  • We screened each publication for terms that were used to define habitat heterogeneity, the animal species group and ecosystem studied, the definition of the structural variable, the measurement of vegetation structure and the temporal and spatial scale of the study. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This diversity in treatment response is due to AML's genetic heterogeneity, meaning that the hundred or so mutations associated with this form of cancer occur in different combinations in each patient and influence therapeutic outcomes in different ways. —  innovations-report
  • Tests for publication bias were done by using funnel plots, heterogeneity, and stratified analyses by predefined characteristics. —  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue
  • Modeling intra-tumor protein expression heterogeneity in tissue microarray experiments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • "In today's IT environments, heterogeneity is a reality, and we recognize that collaboration is critical to building and managing technologies that will work well for customers in these environments," said Tim Smokoff, general manager of the Worldwide Public Sector Healthcare division at Microsoft. —  WebWire | Recent Headlines
 

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  1. =F. hétérogénéité = Spanish heterogeneidad = Portuguese heterogeneidade = Italian eterogeneità; as heterogene-ous + -ity.
 

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/hɛtərədʒəˈniəti/
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