homogeneousとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Medieval Latin homogeneus, from Ancient Greek ὁμογενής (homogenḗs, “of the same race, family または kind”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”) + γένος (génos, “kind”). Compare homo- (“same”) and -ous (adjectival suffix).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌhɒ.mə(ʊ)ˈdʒiː.nɪəs/, /ˌhəʊ.mə(ʊ)ˈdʒiː.nɪəs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌhoʊ.moʊˈd͡ʒiː.njəs/, /ˌhoʊ.məˈd͡ʒiː.njəs/, /ˌhoʊ.moʊˈd͡ʒɛ.njəs/, /həˈmɑ.d͡ʒə.nəs/

形容詞

homogeneous (not comparable)

1. Of the same kind; alike, similar.
2. Having the same composition throughout; of uniform make-up.
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25:

     Their citizens were not of homogeneous origin, but were from all parts of Greece.

3. (chemistry) In the same state of matter.
4. (mathematics) Of which the properties of a smaller set apply to the whole; scalable.

   The function Failed to parse (SVG with PNG fallback (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "/mathoid/local/v1/":): {\displaystyle f(x,y)=x^2+y^2} is homogeneous of degree 2 because ${\displaystyle f(\alpha x,\alpha y)=\alpha ^{2}f(x,y)}$.

反意語

• heterogeneous
• inhomogeneous

派生語

関連する語

• homogeneity
• homogenise, homogenize