Heterogeneity (disambiguation)

On Wikipedia heterogeneity or heterogeneous may refer to the following:

• Heterogeneity in the sciences is a substance composed of dissimilar or diverse parts.
• A heterogeneous reaction, a reaction in chemical kinetics that takes place at the interface of two or more phases, i.e. between a solid and a gas, a liquid and a gas, or a solid and a liquid
• A heterogeneous catalysis, one in which the catalyst is in a different phase from the substrate
• Study heterogeneity, a concept in statistics
• A heterogeneous taxon, a taxon that contains a great variety of individuals or sub-taxa; usually this implies that the taxon is an artificial grouping
• Genetic heterogeneity, multiple origins causing the same disorder in different individuals.
• Heterogeneity in landscape ecology, the measure of how different parts of a landscape are from one another.
• Heterogeneous computing, electronic systems that utilize a variety of different types of computational units
• With information technology it means a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture.
• A data resource with multiple types of formats.
• Heterogeneous agents in economic models

See also

• Homogeneity and heterogeneity
• Homogeneity (disambiguation)
• Degeneracy