consisting of many different kinds of people or things 由很多种类组成的;各种各样的 the heterogeneous population of the United States 由不同族裔组成的美国人口
Extra Examplesa fairly heterogeneous group of students 一群相当不同的学生 socially heterogeneous individuals 社会异质性个体
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHeterogeneous is used with these nouns:- collection
- group
- population
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Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Greek heterogenēs, from heteros ‘other’ + genos ‘a kind’.