Did you perchance mean heterogeneous?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not arising within the body; derived from another individual or species: a heterogenous bone transplant.
- adj. Variant of heterogeneous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In biology, characterized by indirect development; with metamorphosis or alternation of generations.
Wiktionary
- adj. genetics derived from a different individual or species
- adj. alternative spelling of heterogeneous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature
- adj. originating outside the body
Examples
“Parents should also keep in mind that autism is a "heterogenous" disorder, Dawson said.”
“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.”
“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
“Have children draw (younger ones) and write using their 5 senses. treasure hunt for heterogenous groups. (multiaged?)”
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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
“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
“One largely heterogenous field, however, is classical music.”
“A major factor in that divergence has been the heterogeneity of the Legislature, which is the product of a large and heterogenous republic.”
“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.”
“I hope OpenID becomes the core of a new distributed, heterogenous social network.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘heterogenous’.
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Gk. genés 'born, produced';
L. genus, 'kin')mutagen, mutagenesis, pathogen, pathogenesis, progeny, mitogen, parthenogenesis, transgene, mucinogen, myogenic, autogenic, endogenous and 83 more...
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Mispronounced but not misused
Words I use without really knowing how to say them aloud
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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wackyvorlon's list
herein, execrable, extirpate, ameliorate, sawbuck, obstreperous, truculent, festinate, exiguous, exsanguinate, vehement, vex and 135 more...
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Words I Used To Know But Forgot After...
It would also be apt to describe this list of words as a conglomeration of terms I use to fit in with my more intelligent friends.
*Note: I can't believe I used the word "conglomeratio...heterogenous, homogeneous, prestidigitation, truculent, syllogism, syllogize, bombastic, effervescent, logorrhea, insouciant, synergy, paradigm and 31 more...
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