inhomogeneous

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English homogeneous

English inhomogeneous

From in- + homogeneous.

Adjective

inhomogeneous (comparative more inhomogeneous, superlative most inhomogeneous)

1. Not homogeneous.
   • 2016 February 4, “Can Spectral CT Imaging Improve the Differentiation between Malignant and Benign Solitary Pulmonary Nodules?”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     This phenomenon has been observed in earlier studies and could be related to intrascanner variation, sampling differences in the region of interest of an inhomogeneous nodule or beam-hardening artifact.

Synonyms

• heterogeneous
• nonhomogeneous

Derived terms

• inhomogeneously

Translations

not homogeneous

• French: inhomogène (fr)
• Hungarian: inhomogén (hu)
• Polish: niejednorodny (pl)
• Russian: неодноро́дный (ru) (neodnoródnyj)
• Ukrainian: неоднорі́дний (neodnorídnyj)