heterogeneous

  1. Adjective.  Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
  2. Adjective.  (mathematics) Incommensurable because of different kinds.
  3. Adjective.  (physics) Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
  4. Adjective.  (chemistry) Visibly consisting of different components.
  5. Adjective.  (computing) Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture; alternatively, of a data resource with multiple types of formats.

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