HETEROGENEOUS
heterogeneous
Adjective
- Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
- Incommensurable because of different kinds.
- Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
- Visibly consisting of different components.
- 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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