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ho·mo·ge·ne·i·ty

 (hō′mə-jə-nē′ĭ-tē, -nā′-, hŏm′ə-)
n. pl. ho·mo·ge·ne·i·ties
The state or quality of being homogeneous.
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Noun1.homogeneity - the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature; "there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies"
homogeneousness
uniformness, uniformity - the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom)
heterogeneity, heterogeneousness - the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
2.homogeneity - the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure
uniformity - a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying
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homogeneity

[ˈhɒməʊdʒəˈniːɪtɪ] N → homogeneidad f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

homogeneity

[ˌhɒməʊdʒəˈniːəti ˌhəʊməʊdʒɪˈniːəti] n (= uniformity) → uniformité f
cultural homogeneity → uniformité culturelle
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

homogeneity

n → Homogenität f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

homogeneity

[ˌhɒməʊdʒəˈniːɪtɪ] n → omogeneità
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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"Talking of Herbert Spencer," he began, "do you really find no logical difficulty in regarding Nature as a process of involution, passing from definite coherent homogeneity to indefinite incoherent heterogeneity?"
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What's that jawbreaker definition about something or other, of Spencer's, that you sprang on us the other day - that indefinite, incoherent homogeneity thing?
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Lansing struck Vogelstein, even after he had made all allowance for the abnormal homogeneity of the American mass, as really considerable.
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At the Developpe jump on the beam trial, the experiment group obtained an average of 171.6 [+ or -] 9.87[degrees] in the initial test with a coefficient of variation of 8, 96%, indicating a homogeneous collective and an average of 184 [+ or -] 7.41[degrees] in the final test, with a coefficient of variation of 5.3 7%, the degree of homogeneity in final testing being increasing.
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