Adjective

(-)

Of the same kind; alike, similar.

Having the same composition throughout; of uniform make-up.

* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:

Their citizens were not of homogeneous origin, but were from all parts of Greece.

(chemistry) in the same state of matter.

(mathematics) Of which the properties of a smaller set apply to the whole; scalable.

The function ''f(x,y)=x²+y²'' is homogeneous of degree 2 because ''f(''?''x,''?''y)=''?''²f(x,y)''.

(proscribed)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.

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, year= , author=Arthur Schopenhauer , title=The Art of Literature , chapter=2 citation , passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}

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, year= , author=Arthur Schopenhauer , title=The Art of Literature , chapter=2 citation , passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}