Fungible vs Homogeneous - What's the difference?
fungible | homogeneous |
(finance, and, commerce) Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility; interchangeable, exchangeable, replaceable.
* 1876 [1877], , Silver and Gold and Their Relation to the Problem of Resumption ,
* 2011 , Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, London Review of Books , XXXIII.9:
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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 adjectives the difference between fungible and homogeneous
is that fungible is able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility; interchangeable, exchangeable, replaceable while homogeneous is of the same kind; alike, similar.As a noun fungible
is any fungible item.fungible
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(Fungibility)Adjective
(en adjective)page 116:
- Gold is fungible'. Silver is ' fungible ; that is, these metals are both so homogeneous that, if I get a pound of pure gold, for example, it is indifferent to me whether it be this pound or that pound, one is as good as another
- At the core of Kasarda’s conception of the aerotropolis lies the notion that space – unlike time – is fungible .
Derived terms
* (l)References
homogeneous
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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)''.