Homogeneous vs Synchronous - What's the difference?
homogeneous | synchronous |
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)
At the same time, at the same frequency.
(computing, of communication) Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.
As adjectives the difference between homogeneous and synchronous
is that homogeneous is of the same kind; alike, similar while synchronous is at the same time, at the same frequency.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)''.