HETEROGENEOUS

Het′er‐o‐ge″ne‐ous (?), a. [[Gr. �; � + � race, kind; akin to E. kin: cf. F. hétérogène.]] Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; — opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. — Het′er‐o‐ge″ne‐ous‐ly, adv. — Het′er‐o‐ge″ne‐ous‐ness, n. Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and hæc loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc cælum, neuter in the singular; hi cæli, masculine in the plural. — Heterogeneous quantities (Math.), such quantities as are incapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, and surfaces and solids. — Heterogeneous surds (Math.), surds having different radical signs.