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Definition of homogeneous in English: homogeneous(also homogenous) adjective ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈdʒiːnɪəsˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈdʒiːnɪəsˌhoʊməˈdʒiniəs 1Of the same kind; alike. 同种的;相似的 if all jobs and workers were homogeneous 如果所有的工作和工人都相似。 Example sentencesExamples - The study shows that property taxes are most regressive in municipalities where homeowner incomes vary widely but property values are relatively homogeneous.
- At the beginning of the experiments, seedlings were homogeneous in terms of length.
- More products are becoming homogeneous commodities for which uniformity of size, quality and taste is absolutely essential.
- This means that students within each school are relatively homogeneous in terms of academic ability, while the schools show wide variation in the academic ability of their first-year intake.
- The sample used in the study was relatively small (compared to previous studies) and was made up of relatively homogeneous individuals making it difficult to generalize the results to the wider population.
- The risk is not a society of beautiful but homogeneous mannequins.
- This notion of difference focuses on women as homogeneous; as though they all are alike, and different from men in the same way.
- The Kurds are more homogeneous than Iraqis as a whole, and yet even in the Kurdish areas, for about four years, there was essentially civil war.
- However, these results were based on a sample of university men who were fairly homogeneous in age, sexual experience, and frequency of intercourse.
Synonyms similar, comparable, equivalent, like, analogous, corresponding, correspondent, parallel, matching, kindred, related, correlative, congruent, cognate - 1.1 Consisting of parts all of the same kind.
由同种组成的 由同一种族组成的社会。 Example sentencesExamples - The cadets' problems must come from the fact that they live in a homogeneous and closed environment and under constant pressure of all sorts of compulsory norms and rules.
- At each meeting, it has struck me clearly that the party attracts not only smaller and smaller crowds, but the make-up of the crowd has become more homogeneous and less diversified.
- In 1983, three pairs of permanent plots, each 5 x 5 m, were established in the study wood in sites with homogeneous vegetation.
- The sample was very homogeneous, consisting primarily of well-educated White women.
- She demonstrates that even seemingly homogeneous groups had subgroups that thought very differently about compulsory insurance.
- We need to have homogeneous traffic if the problem of jams and slow moving traffic is to be solved.
- A culturally homogeneous society whose members subscribe and adhere to one system of beliefs and practices is in the realm of fiction.
- These findings confirmed the contention that when considering competence and self-esteem, single-parent children cannot be treated as a homogeneous group.
- Until the Second World War nearly all the countries of Europe had very homogeneous populations and very little recent experience of immigration.
- As a result, they end up with very homogeneous institutions, like major media, which reflect the world view of a self-selecting few.
- Through her work, Bertrand questions the desirability of a homogeneous world where emotional and physical diversity have been eradicated.
- The thousands of offenders released each year from Colorado prisons cannot be treated as an homogeneous group nor assisted in a standardized manner.
- Perhaps the hybridity is difficult to see on the surface, given how homogeneous Argentinean society appears to be, especially in terms of race and class.
- This may explain why during the 20th century relatively homogeneous Scandanavia was able to build a welfare state, where melting pot America baulked.
- Many Chileans almost glorify the country's physical isolation, as they consider it a key factor in allowing the creation of a homogeneous society.
- China is for the most part an extremely homogeneous society composed of a people who share one language, culture, and history.
- It is a crime committed not against members of ethnically or racially or religiously diverse groups but only against members of ethnically or racially or religiously homogeneous groups.
- The legend in Australia was that everyone is the same, living in a classless, regionless, ethnically homogeneous society with the same history and a universal accent.
- There is little doubt that if this were a more racially homogeneous country, capital punishment would have gone the way of the dodo bird 30 years ago.
- In Russia, the ethnic and geographic diversity of the population ensured its transition would be more difficult than that in the more homogeneous and smaller Baltic states or eastern European countries.
Synonyms uniform, identical, unvaried, unvarying, consistent, similar, undistinguishable alike, all alike, of the same kind, much the same, all the same, the same, all one, all of a piece informal much of a muchness - 1.2Mathematics Containing terms all of the same degree.
由同种组成的 Example sentencesExamples - A test of homogeneity also was conducted to determine if the 1986 and 1987 regression coefficients were homogeneous and could be pooled.
- This is what you do with homogeneous differential equations.
- With few exceptions, non-quadratic homogeneous polynomials have received little attention as possible candidates for yield functions.
- Here is a homogeneous equation in which the total degree of both the numerator and the denominator of the right-hand side is 2.
- In this work, Moritz Cantor has discovered, Feuerbach introduces homogeneous coordinates.
2Chemistry Denoting a process involving substances in the same phase (solid, liquid, or gaseous) 〔化〕同形态(固态、液态或气态)的 由同一种族组成的社会。 Example sentencesExamples - One of the factors that makes process engineers think twice before choosing homogeneous catalysis, however, is the problem of separation.
- The few examples of homogeneous catalysis by gold previously reported in the literature are associated with very small turnover frequencies and yields of product per mole of catalyst.
- The requirements of homogeneous diesel combustion processes give additional impetuses to the continued development of piezo controls for unit injector systems.
- Heterogeneous catalysis, in which the catalyst and reactants occupy separate phases, is something of a black art when compared with homogeneous catalysis.
- It converts organic solvents into a stable gel, providing an organometallic model for a catalyst to be used efficiently in a single phase, homogeneous catalytic reaction.
UsageThe usual spelling is homogeneous, and the spelling homogenous is traditionally regarded as an error. Homogenous is a different word, a specialized biological term meaning ‘having a common descent’, which has been largely replaced by homologous. From the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, the spelling homogeneous has become significantly less common since 2000, and around a third of citations for the word now use the form homogenous. This can now be regarded as an established variant Derivativesadverbˌhɒməˈdʒiːnɪəsliˌhə(ʊ)məˈdʒiːnɪəsliˌhoʊməˈdʒiniəsli Most models of metabolic and signal-transduction pathways describe the cell as a ‘well-stirred reactor’, its soluble components distributed homogeneously throughout. Example sentencesExamples - The contestants are from ‘diverse backgrounds’ - television-speak meaning that they are homogeneously good-looking and career-driven.
- Red blood cells offer several advantages as a model system for this type of experiment in that they lack any internal organelles, are homogeneously filled with hemoglobin, and can be osmotically swollen to a spherical shape.
- Its population is small, much more homogeneously white than the Democratic Party as a whole, and it thinks differently than Democrats do elsewhere in the country.
- Rather than expect that lipids remain homogeneously distributed within biological membranes, one should expect that domains spontaneously form.
nounˌhə(ʊ)məˈdʒiːnɪəsnəsˌhɒməˈdʒiːnɪəsnəsˌhoʊməˈdʒiniəsnəs As the previous stage was characterized by the homogeneousness and hatred of everything different, this stage showed an increasing interest in what was different and was marked by an extreme expressionistic individualism. Example sentencesExamples - A number of eyewitnesses stress the lack of ethnic homogeneousness within what superficial observers regarded as being cohesive Italian settlements in American cities.
- And it is not just ethnic minorities who are challenging received ideas of Japanese homogeneousness.
- The explanation had to account for the homogeneousness of the snakes.
OriginEarly 17th century (as homogeneity): from medieval Latin homogeneus, from Greek homogenēs, from homos 'same' + genos 'race, kind'. Rhymesgenius, heterogeneous, ingenious Definition of homogeneous in US English: homogeneous(also homogenous) adjectiveˌhōməˈjēnēəsˌhoʊməˈdʒiniəs 1Of the same kind; alike. 同种的;相似的 timbermen prefer to deal with homogeneous woods Example sentencesExamples - The study shows that property taxes are most regressive in municipalities where homeowner incomes vary widely but property values are relatively homogeneous.
- This means that students within each school are relatively homogeneous in terms of academic ability, while the schools show wide variation in the academic ability of their first-year intake.
- The Kurds are more homogeneous than Iraqis as a whole, and yet even in the Kurdish areas, for about four years, there was essentially civil war.
- At the beginning of the experiments, seedlings were homogeneous in terms of length.
- The sample used in the study was relatively small (compared to previous studies) and was made up of relatively homogeneous individuals making it difficult to generalize the results to the wider population.
- However, these results were based on a sample of university men who were fairly homogeneous in age, sexual experience, and frequency of intercourse.
- This notion of difference focuses on women as homogeneous; as though they all are alike, and different from men in the same way.
- More products are becoming homogeneous commodities for which uniformity of size, quality and taste is absolutely essential.
- The risk is not a society of beautiful but homogeneous mannequins.
Synonyms similar, comparable, equivalent, like, analogous, corresponding, correspondent, parallel, matching, kindred, related, correlative, congruent, cognate - 1.1 Consisting of parts all of the same kind.
由同种组成的 culturally speaking the farmers constitute an extremely homogeneous group Example sentencesExamples - Until the Second World War nearly all the countries of Europe had very homogeneous populations and very little recent experience of immigration.
- Many Chileans almost glorify the country's physical isolation, as they consider it a key factor in allowing the creation of a homogeneous society.
- She demonstrates that even seemingly homogeneous groups had subgroups that thought very differently about compulsory insurance.
- The sample was very homogeneous, consisting primarily of well-educated White women.
- In Russia, the ethnic and geographic diversity of the population ensured its transition would be more difficult than that in the more homogeneous and smaller Baltic states or eastern European countries.
- This may explain why during the 20th century relatively homogeneous Scandanavia was able to build a welfare state, where melting pot America baulked.
- The cadets' problems must come from the fact that they live in a homogeneous and closed environment and under constant pressure of all sorts of compulsory norms and rules.
- It is a crime committed not against members of ethnically or racially or religiously diverse groups but only against members of ethnically or racially or religiously homogeneous groups.
- China is for the most part an extremely homogeneous society composed of a people who share one language, culture, and history.
- At each meeting, it has struck me clearly that the party attracts not only smaller and smaller crowds, but the make-up of the crowd has become more homogeneous and less diversified.
- The legend in Australia was that everyone is the same, living in a classless, regionless, ethnically homogeneous society with the same history and a universal accent.
- Through her work, Bertrand questions the desirability of a homogeneous world where emotional and physical diversity have been eradicated.
- These findings confirmed the contention that when considering competence and self-esteem, single-parent children cannot be treated as a homogeneous group.
- As a result, they end up with very homogeneous institutions, like major media, which reflect the world view of a self-selecting few.
- There is little doubt that if this were a more racially homogeneous country, capital punishment would have gone the way of the dodo bird 30 years ago.
- In 1983, three pairs of permanent plots, each 5 x 5 m, were established in the study wood in sites with homogeneous vegetation.
- The thousands of offenders released each year from Colorado prisons cannot be treated as an homogeneous group nor assisted in a standardized manner.
- A culturally homogeneous society whose members subscribe and adhere to one system of beliefs and practices is in the realm of fiction.
- We need to have homogeneous traffic if the problem of jams and slow moving traffic is to be solved.
- Perhaps the hybridity is difficult to see on the surface, given how homogeneous Argentinean society appears to be, especially in terms of race and class.
Synonyms uniform, identical, unvaried, unvarying, consistent, similar, undistinguishable - 1.2Mathematics Containing terms all of the same degree.
由同种组成的 Example sentencesExamples - Here is a homogeneous equation in which the total degree of both the numerator and the denominator of the right-hand side is 2.
- In this work, Moritz Cantor has discovered, Feuerbach introduces homogeneous coordinates.
- This is what you do with homogeneous differential equations.
- A test of homogeneity also was conducted to determine if the 1986 and 1987 regression coefficients were homogeneous and could be pooled.
- With few exceptions, non-quadratic homogeneous polynomials have received little attention as possible candidates for yield functions.
UsageThe usual spelling is homogeneous, and the spelling homogenous is traditionally regarded as an error. Homogenous is a different word, a specialized biological term meaning ‘having a common descent,’ which has been largely replaced by homologous. From the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, the spelling homogeneous has become significantly less common since 2000, and around a third of citations for the word now use the form homogenous. This can now be regarded as an established variant OriginEarly 17th century (as homogeneity): from medieval Latin homogeneus, from Greek homogenēs, from homos ‘same’ + genos ‘race, kind’. |