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Monotonous vs Homogeneous - What's the difference?

monotonous | homogeneous |

As adjectives the difference between monotonous and homogeneous

is that monotonous is having an unvarying tone or pitch while homogeneous is of the same kind; alike, similar.

monotonous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having an unvarying tone or pitch
  • tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
  • Synonyms

    * monotonic * samely

    homogeneous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (proscribed)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the same kind; alike, similar.
  • Having the same composition throughout; of uniform make-up.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:
  • Their citizens were not of homogeneous origin, but were from all parts of Greece.
  • (chemistry) in the same state of matter.
  • (mathematics) Of which the properties of a smaller set apply to the whole; scalable.
  • The function ''f(x,y)=x2+y2'' is homogeneous of degree 2 because ''f(''?''x,''?''y)=''?''2f(x,y)''.
  • (proscribed)
  • Antonyms

    * heterogeneous

    Derived terms

    * homogeneous mixture * homogeneous broadening * homogeneous catalysis * homogeneous coordinate * homogeneous function * homogeneous ideal * homogeneous number * homogeneous polynomial * homogeneous radiation * homogeneous society * homogeneous space * homogeneous system