Equilibrium vs Homogeneous - What's the difference?
equilibrium | homogeneous |
The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
* 1999 , , Agent smith speech
(physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
(chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
Mental balance.
Of the same kind; alike, similar.
Having the same composition throughout; of uniform make-up.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:
(chemistry) in the same state of matter.
(mathematics) Of which the properties of a smaller set apply to the whole; scalable.
(proscribed)
As a noun equilibrium
is balance, equilibrium.As an adjective homogeneous is
of the same kind; alike, similar.equilibrium
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* “equilibrium]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.(dated)
Noun
(en-noun)- Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
Synonyms
* (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) balance, stability * (mental balance) sanityAntonyms
* (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) disequilibrium, imbalance, instability * (in physics) disequilibrium, non-equilibrium * (mental balance) insanity, instability, madnessHypernyms
* (in physics) stasisDerived terms
* disequilibrium * dynamic equilibrium * equilibrist * Nash equilibrium * neutral equilibrium * stable equilibrium * static equilibrium * unstable equilibriumhomogeneous
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* (proscribed)Adjective
(-)- Their citizens were not of homogeneous origin, but were from all parts of Greece.
- The function ''f(x,y)=x2+y2'' is homogeneous of degree 2 because ''f(''?''x,''?''y)=''?''2f(x,y)''.