Heterogeneous vs Disparate - What's the difference?
heterogeneous | disparate | Synonyms |
Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
(mathematics) Incommensurable because of different kinds.
(physics) Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
(chemistry) Visibly consisting of different components.
(computing) Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture; alternatively, of a data resource with multiple types of formats.
Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.
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As adjectives the difference between heterogeneous and disparate
is that heterogeneous is diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts. {{usex|lang=en|He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books.} while disparate is composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.As a noun disparate is
any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.heterogeneous
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(en adjective)Antonyms
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(en adjective)- The board of the company was decidedly disparate – no two members from the same social or economic background.