HETEROGENEOUS

heterogeneous

Adjective

  1. Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
  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.


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