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heterogeneal

heterogeneal is the archaic form of heterogeneous.

Meaning of heterogeneous

Adjective

heterogeneous (comparative more heterogeneous, superlative most heterogeneous)

  1. Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
    • He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books.
    Synonyms:
    heterologous
  2. Incommensurable because of different kinds.
  3. Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
  4. Visibly consisting of different components.
  5. 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.

Questions about heterogeneal

What is heterogeneal the archaic form of?
Heterogeneal is the archaic form of heterogeneous.

Words near heterogeneal in the dictionary

  1. heterogamy
  2. heterogangliate
  3. heterogender
  4. heterogenderal
  5. heterogene
  6. heterogeneal
  7. heterogenecity
  8. heterogeneic
  9. heterogeneicity
  10. heterogeneities
  11. heterogeneity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heterogeneal (page history and authors); heterogeneous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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