Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous (?), a. [Gr. ?;
? + ? race, kind; akin to E. kin: cf. F.
hétérogène.] Differing in kind;
having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics;
dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more
connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect
to the parts of which it is made up. --
Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. --
Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n.
Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nouns
having different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as,
hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi
loci and hæc loca, both masculine and neuter in the
plural; hoc cælum, neuter in the singular; hi
cæli, masculine in the plural. --
Heterogeneous quantities (Math.), such
quantities as are incapable of being compared together in respect to
magnitude, and surfaces and solids. -- Heterogeneous
surds (Math.), surds having different radical
signs.