homogeneities
|ho-mo-ge-ne-i-ty|
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/ˌhoʊməˈdʒɛnɪti/
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/ˌhɒməˈdʒɛnɪti/
(homogeneity)
sameness
Etymology
'homogeneity' originates from Greek, specifically the word 'homogenēs', where 'homos' meant 'same' and 'genos' meant 'kind' or 'race'.
'homogeneity' changed from the Late Latin/Medieval Latin form 'homogenitas' and from the adjective 'homogeneous' (early modern English), eventually becoming the modern English noun 'homogeneity'.
Initially it meant 'of the same kind'; over time it evolved into an abstract noun denoting the state or quality of being uniform and acquired specialized technical senses in mathematics and the sciences.
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Noun 1
the quality or state of being homogeneous; uniformity in composition or structure.
The homogeneities observed in the samples suggested the mixture had been well prepared.
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Noun 2
in statistics or social science, the degree to which elements of a group or dataset are similar (lack of variation among elements).
Before pooling the data, the team tested for homogeneities across the study sites.
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in mathematics and physics, instances or cases of homogeneity, such as functions or equations that exhibit a specific scaling behavior (homogeneity of degree n).
The researchers catalogued several homogeneities in the model equations to identify scaling laws.
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