Homogeneous vs Simular - What's the difference?
homogeneous | simular |
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)
(obsolete, rare) false; specious; counterfeit
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
(archaic) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
* 1605 , , III. ii. 54:
* (rfdate) , Doctrinal treatises and introductions to different portions of the Holy Scriptures :
As adjectives the difference between homogeneous and simular
is that homogeneous is of the same kind; alike, similar while simular is (obsolete|rare) false; specious; counterfeit.As a noun simular is
(archaic) one who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.homogeneous
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Alternative forms
* (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)''.
Antonyms
* heterogeneousDerived terms
* homogeneous mixture * homogeneous broadening * homogeneous catalysis * homogeneous coordinate * homogeneous function * homogeneous ideal * homogeneous number * homogeneous polynomial * homogeneous radiation * homogeneous society * homogeneous space * homogeneous systemExternal links
* * * English words prefixed with homo-simular
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Thou simular man of virtue.
Noun
(en noun)- Hide thee, thou bloody hand, / Thou perjured, and thou simular of virtue / That art incestuous.
- Christ calleth the Pharisees hypocrites, that is to say, simulars , and painted sepulchres.