Incongruous vs Heterogeneous - What's the difference?
incongruous | heterogeneous |
Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
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(math) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
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.
As adjectives the difference between incongruous and heterogeneous
is that incongruous is not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in while heterogeneous is diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.incongruous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
- Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.
- Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
- For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.
- 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.