homogeneous

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Even assessing the state of the Chinese economy right now is tricky, partly because official statistics are notoriously unreliable and far from comprehensive - but also because China can no more be described as a homogeneous economy than can Europe.

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  1. adjective Of the same or similar nature or kind: "a tight-knit, homogeneous society” (James Fallows).
  2. adjective Uniform in structure or composition throughout.
  3. adjective Mathematics Consisting of terms of the same degree or elements of the same dimension.

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  • The first of these is strictly homogeneous, and the second can be made so. —  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: Project Gutenberg Australia
  • For five thousand years Pao had been homogeneous, a planet directed by tradition, somnolent in an ageless tranquillity. —  Languages of Pao The
  • Nothing. When the true pianoforte virtuosi played it was always something homogeneous, an entity; it could be transcribed and then it appeared as a well thought-out work. —  Beethoven: the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words
  • Even assessing the state of the Chinese economy right now is tricky, partly because official statistics are notoriously unreliable and far from comprehensive - but also because China can no more be described as a homogeneous economy than can Europe. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • If I may so say, it is all of a piece, homogeneous, and of one web. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
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  1. From Medieval Latin homogeneus, from Greek homogenēs : homo-, homo- + genos, kind; see heterogeneous.

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  1. from French homogène; = Spanish homogéneo = Portuguese homogeneo = Italian omogeneo, from New Latin homogeneus, from Greek ὁμογενής, of the same race, family, or kind, from ὁμός, the same, + γέμός, race, family, kind: see genus.
 

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