heterogeneous
Considerable heterogeneity exists within the group of children.
Interpretation of study data was very difficult due to the heterogeneity of the patient population.
Lipset argued that the weakness of socialism in the US reflected the heterogeneity of the working class.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Variety and mixtures
all manner of somethingidiom
alphabet soup
assorted
assortment
biodiverse
hybridize
hybridized
it takes all sorts (to make a world)idiom
jumble
kludge
odds and ends
of every stripe/of all stripesidiom
panoply
patchwork
polycentric
this
this and thatidiom
variety is the spice of lifeidiom
variously
wide choice

Examples of heterogeneity

heterogeneity
Tests for heterogeneity indicated that flies within geographically defined regions were homogeneous.
In this context heterogeneity may be induced by a combination of host behaviour, host genetics and past or current experience of infection.
Even so, there remained some heterogeneity amongst trustees in how they utilized the information given.
Also, heterogeneity within the riparian zone was as great as differences between the riparian zone and surrounding areas.
Moreover, it is desirable that agent-oriented development environments can support scalability and heterogeneity aspects of multi-agent systems.
The first two levels can be grouped into the so-called structural heterogeneity.
First, it is very unlikely to be one gene, because of the evidence for genetic heterogeneity.
This suggests that the deformation of the lithosphere is strongly controlled by interfering vertical and lateral heterogeneities.
Therefore, the precise role of non-genetic heterogeneity in influencing the observed decline in genetic variance is an important and open question.
In this regard, new approaches to technology generation allow research outcomes to be customized to the heterogeneity of poverty.
Then, dependent on the presence of heterogeneity, we analysed studies that compared the intervention only with standard care, or only with other active treatments.
In these the heterogeneity is difficult to interpret.
This greatly reduced the heterogeneity and demonstrated a far greater benefit of single family treatments over standard care than when group family treatments were included.
What about the nonisotropy of perceived space and the resulting potential heterogeneity in the constitution of regions of space?
Such procedures rest on a somewhat more static view of a period that is typically characterized by heterogeneity and flux.
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Collocations withheterogeneity

heterogeneity

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considerable heterogeneity
While environmental, demographic, and policy factors introduce considerable heterogeneity, they do so by moderating these economic influences.
degree of heterogeneity
The investigators further demonstrated the large degree of heterogeneity in both the location and magnitude of the tension exerted in this region.
environmental heterogeneity
We find that the key variables promoting diversity are market isolation, environmental heterogeneity, and generational effects.
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