heterogenous

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"The smart grid is very heterogenous, and anyone acting like it's homogeneous is vastly oversimplifying it," Widergren said.

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  1. adjective Not arising within the body; derived from another individual or species: a heterogenous bone transplant.
  2. adjective Variant of heterogeneous.

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  • He specializes in designing and implementing software architectures for highly distributed (heterogenous) systems in general and in SOA in particular.
  • This is more consistent with Richard Florida's reading of the creative class which suggests the productivity gains have been heterogenous, rather than homogenous across professions. —  Cam Riley
  • Joni / Eleanor's K WriOng •   Class is 80‐90\% ESL, half day K •   3 heterogenous groups •   —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Theres always going to be room for simply a gpgpu only solution, as even heterogenous may simply be overkill, and thus that at least leaves nVidia something, regardless of how things turn out —  News Tom's Hardware US
  • However, we live in a land of heterogenous principles. —  Conglomerate
 

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