: A network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture. Alternatively, a data resource with multiple types of formats
A heterogeneous group consists of many different types of things or people. a rather heterogeneous collection of studies from diverse origins. = diverse homogeneous. consisting of parts or members that are very different from each other homogeneous (heterogeneus, from , from hetero- ( HETERO-) + genos )
Materials made from more than one type of substructure Opposite of homogeneous, a material with a uniform composition (Note that a material can be chemically complex yet homogeneous )
A network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture. Alternatively, a data resource with multiple types of formats
This term qualifies systems or modes of catalysis often encountered in cellular biology, in which the functional components are not homogeneously distributed distributed as in solution, but rather organized Model systems have been described using immobilized enzymes at the surface of matrices, or within porous lattices, surrounded by bulk solution in which reactants are dissolved In such heterogeneous catalytic systems, the substrates and products have to diffuse to and from the enzymic phase in order to complete the catalytic cycle as sensed by an external observer (e g , in bulk solution) The effective properties of such a heterogeneous system displays a channeling behavior for the reactants and may strikingly differ from these of the same system in solution They include in addition to intrinsic properties of the catalyst(s), other features inherent to the non-homogeneous character of the system
(adj ) Containing components of more than one kind A heterogeneous architecture may be one in which some components are processors, and others memories, or it may be one that uses different types of processor together See also distributed computer, homogeneous