Homogeneous

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homogeneous \Ho`mo*ge"ne*ous\, a. [Gr. ?; ? the same + ? race,
     kind: cf. F. homog[`e]ne. See {Same}, and {Kin}.]
     1. Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts,
        or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to
        heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or
        principles; homogeneous bodies.


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     2. (Alg.) Possessing the same number of factors of a given
        kind; as, a homogeneous polynomial.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  homogeneous
       adj : all of the same or similar kind or nature; "a close-knit
             homogeneous group" [syn: {homogenous}] [ant: {heterogeneous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "homogeneous":
     accordant, akin, alike, aped, austere, automatic, balanced, bare,
     basic, chaste, comparable, consimilar, consistent, consonant,
     constant, continuous, copied, correspondent, counterfeit,
     elementary, equable, equal, ersatz, essential, even, fake,
     favoring, flat, following, fundamental, homely, homespun,
     identical, imitated, imitation, immutable, indivisible, invariable,
     irreducible, level, like, measured, mechanical, mere, methodic,
     mimicked, mock, monolithic, nearly reproduced, not unlike,
     of a piece, ordered, orderly, persistent, phony, plain, primal,
     primary, pure, pure and simple, regular, resembling, robotlike,
     severe, similar, simon-pure, simple, simulated, single,
     smacking of, smooth, something like, spare, stable, stark,
     steadfast, steady, suggestive of, synthetic, systematic, unadorned,
     unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncluttered,
     undeviating, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiversified,
     uniform, uniform with, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  homogeneous
       
          (Or "homogenous") Of uniform nature, similar in kind.
       
          1. In the context of {distributed systems}, {middleware} makes
          {heterogeneous} systems appear as a homogeneous entity.  For
          example see: {interoperable network}.
       
          Constrast {heterogeneous}.
       
          2.  (Of a {polynomial}) containing terms of the
          same degree with respect to all the variables, as in x^2 + 2xy
          + y^2.
       
          3.  (Of a {function}) containing a set of
          variables such that when each is multiplied by a constant,
          this constant can be eliminated without altering the value of
          the function, as in cos x/y + x/y.
       
          4.  (of an equation) containing a homogeneous
          function made equal to 0.
       
          (1999-05-06)