Heterogeneous vs Mixtion - What's the difference?
heterogeneous | mixtion |
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.
(archaic) The act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
(obsolete) A compound of drugs; a medicinal concoction.
(obsolete) A chemical compound.
(obsolete) In gilding, a mixture of amber, mastic, and asphalt used as a for affixing gold leaf to wood or to distemper pictures.
(obsolete) The addition of something as an ingredient; admixture; the presence of a heterogeneous element in a mixture or compound.
(obsolete) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.
As an adjective heterogeneous
is diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.As a noun mixtion is
(archaic) the act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.heterogeneous
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(en adjective)Antonyms
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(en noun)- Nor are there hardly any who either treat of mutation or mixtion of sexes, who have not left some mention of this point [...].