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Heterogeneity (disambiguation)

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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.
  • Allelic heterogeneity, different mutations at the same locus causing the same disorder.
  • 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
  • Heterogeneity in economics

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