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homogeneity

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being homogeneous.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
For homogeneity of variance see homoscedasticity . In statistics , homogeneity and its opposite, heterogeneity , arise in describing the properties of a dataset , or several datasets. They relate to the validity of the often convenient assumption that the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homogeneity \Ho`mo*ge*ne"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. homog['e]n['e]it['e].] Same as Homogeneousness .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from homogene (see homogeneous ) + -ity .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature; "there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies" [syn: homogeneousness ] [ant: heterogeneity ] the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure

Usage examples of homogeneity.

There is here none of the homogeneity which is the property of magnitude, and the necessary condition of measurement, giving a view of the less in the bosom of the more.

There is no measurable homogeneity, no collection of atomically constructed elements.

Our present need for privacy in many things marks, indeed, a phase of transition from an ease in public in the past due to homogeneity, to an ease in public in the future due to intelligence and good breeding, and in Utopia that transition will be complete.

Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separation, and their departure from the old homogeneity is sufficiently marked to justify a doubt whether there will be any more thoroughly communistic Utopias for ever.

The family will lose homogeneity, and its individuals will have for the mother varied and perhaps incompatible emotional associations.

That is, as stability increases, fewer and fewer moments of ascertaining consciousness are focused on any other object, making for a homogeneity of moments of ascertaining perception.

Because of the homogeneity of this mental continuum, the experiential effect would be that of the mind apprehending itself.

I had no idea what the homogeneity of TV broadcasting might be from a vampire perspective.

The people, in contrast, tends toward identity and homogeneity internally while posing its difference from and excluding what remains outside of it.

Just as in the context of the dominant countries, here too the multiplicity and singularity of the multitude are negated in the straitjacket of the identity and homogeneity of the people.

The binary conception of the world implies the essentialism and homogeneity of the identities on its two halves, and, through the relationship across that central boundary, implies the subsumption of all experience within a coherent social totality.

Benedict Anderson discusses the force of print in replacing Latin with the vernacular, in building the image of an ancient national culture, and in fostering homogeneity of dialect and hence communication among linguistically different speakers.

American democracy will lose its most valuable and promising characteristic in case it loses the homogeneity of feeling which the pioneers were the first to embody.

Thus they seriously impaired the social and economic homogeneity, which the pioneer believed to be the essential quality of fruitful Americanism.

The earlier homogeneity of American society has been impaired, and no authoritative and edifying, but conscious, social ideal has as yet taken its place.