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ing of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies.

Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.

(Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

ent elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. Macaulay.

Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind. Dr. H. More. And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage. Shak. Earthly soun…

of a plumb line and the direction it would have if the earth were a perfect ellipsoid and homogeneous, -- caused by the attraction of a mountain, or irregularities in the earth's density.

The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.

That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychic…

aving unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n. Heterogeneous nouns (Gra…

The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.

Homogeneous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Homogeneous.

Homogeneousness.

Same as Homogeneousness.

A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

tumen and Asphalt. -- Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal. -- Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy luster. -- Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine, yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.

The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.

A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as…

out a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.