Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. HETEROGE'NEAL
2. HETEROGENE'ITY, noun Opposition of nature; contrariety or dissimilitude of qualities. [Ill formed.]
3. Dissimilar part; something of a different kind.
The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.
1. Of a different kind or nature; unlike or dissimilar in kind; opposed to homogeneous.
2. The light whose rays are all alike refrangible, I call simple, homogeneal and similar; and that whose rays are some more refrangible than others, I call compound, heterogeneal and dissimilar.
3. Heterogeneous nouns, are such as are of different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and haec loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural. Hoc coelum, neuter in the singular; hi coeli, masculine in the plural.
4. Heterogeneous quantities, are those which are of such different kind and consideration, that one of them, taken any number of times, never equals or exceeds the other.
5. Heterogeneous surds, are such as have different radical signs.
Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up.
Difference of nature and quality; dissimilitude or contrariety in kind, nature or qualities.
1. Spontaneous generation, so called.
2. That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.
Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations.
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