(a.) Differing in kind; having 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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