Homogeneous \Ho`mo*ge"ne*ous\, a. [Gr. ?; ? the same + ? race,
   kind: cf. F. homog[`e]ne. See Same, and Kin.]
   1. Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts,
      or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to
      heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or
      principles; homogeneous bodies.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Alg.) Possessing the same number of factors of a given
      kind; as, a homogeneous polynomial.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	homogeneous
    adj 1: all of the same or similar kind or nature; "a close-knit
           homogeneous group" [syn: homogeneous, homogenous]
           [ant: heterogeneous, heterogenous]

	

	95 Moby Thesaurus words for "homogeneous":
   accordant, akin, alike, aped, austere, automatic, balanced, bare,
   basic, chaste, comparable, consimilar, consistent, consonant,
   constant, continuous, copied, correspondent, counterfeit,
   elementary, equable, equal, ersatz, essential, even, fake,
   favoring, flat, following, fundamental, homely, homespun,
   identical, imitated, imitation, immutable, indivisible, invariable,
   irreducible, level, like, measured, mechanical, mere, methodic,
   mimicked, mock, monolithic, nearly reproduced, not unlike,
   of a piece, ordered, orderly, persistent, phony, plain, primal,
   primary, pure, pure and simple, regular, resembling, robotlike,
   severe, similar, simon-pure, simple, simulated, single,
   smacking of, smooth, something like, spare, stable, stark,
   steadfast, steady, suggestive of, synthetic, systematic, unadorned,
   unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncluttered,
   undeviating, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiversified,
   uniform, uniform with, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying

	

	homogeneous
homogenous

   (Or "homogenous") Of uniform nature, similar in kind.

   1. In the context of distributed systems, middleware makes
   heterogeneous systems appear as a homogeneous entity.  For
   example see: interoperable network.

   Constrast heterogeneous.

   2.  (Of a polynomial) containing terms of the
   same degree with respect to all the variables, as in x^2 + 2xy
   + y^2.

   3.  (Of a function) containing a set of
   variables such that when each is multiplied by a constant,
   this constant can be eliminated without altering the value of
   the function, as in cos x/y + x/y.

   4.  (of an equation) containing a homogeneous
   function made equal to 0.

   (1999-05-06)