"heterogeneity" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-heterogeneity.wav [US] Forms: heterogeneities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} heterogeneity (countable and uncountable, plural heterogeneities)
  1. (uncountable) Diversity Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-heterogeneity-en-noun-PkM7OsTs
  2. (countable) A composition of diverse parts. Tags: countable Translations (composition of diverse parts): хетерогенност (heterogennost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), разнородност (raznorodnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), heterogeneïtat [feminine] (Catalan), 異質性 (Chinese Mandarin), 异质性 (yìzhìxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), různorodost [feminine] (Czech), heterogeniteit [feminine] (Dutch), heterogeensus (Estonian), heterogeenisyys (Finnish), hétérogénéité [feminine] (French), heteroxeneidade [feminine] (Galician), Heterogenität [feminine] (German), eterogeneità [feminine] (Italian), гетерогенділік (geterogendılık) (Kazakh), әртектілік (ärtektılık) (Kazakh), разно́ликост (raznólikost) [feminine] (Macedonian), хетероге́ност (heterogénost) [feminine] (Macedonian), разно́родност (raznórodnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), niejednorodność (Polish), heterogeneidade (Portuguese), гетерогенность (geterogennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), heterogeneidad (Spanish), dam-uri (Tagalog), різнорідність (riznoridnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), гетерогенність (heterohennistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-heterogeneity-en-noun-aqUhySch Disambiguation of 'composition of diverse parts': 5 88 7
  3. (uncountable) The quality of a substance which is not uniform. Tags: uncountable Translations (nonuniform quality of a substance): 異質性 (Chinese Mandarin), 异质性 (yìzhìxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), heterogeniteit [feminine] (Dutch), heterogeenisyys (Finnish), ανομοιογένεια (anomoiogéneia) [feminine] (Greek)
    Sense id: en-heterogeneity-en-noun-bFZAvxTt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 18 75 Disambiguation of 'nonuniform quality of a substance': 1 4 95
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