heteronymous

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For, if two inconsistent principles of valuation be employed, then the table will be vicious, because heteronymous.

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  1. adjective Being, relating to, or of the nature of a heteronym.
  2. adjective Being different names or terms but having correspondence or interrelationship, as mother and daughter.

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  1. From Late Greek heterōnumos, from Greek, with a different denominator : Greek hetero-, hetero- + Greek onoma, name; see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek ἑτερώνυμος, having a different name: see heteronym.
 

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/hɛtəˈrɑnɪməs/
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