inhomogeneity

Examples

• All

• Inhomogeneities in temperature bend the light and produce the bright lines and shadows shown.

  Academic text (2001)

• Finally, inflation gives an explanation for the inhomogeneities that we see in the universe.

• "The decision of whether or not to correct for a potential inhomogeneity is often a subjective one."

  Blog text (22)

• But the main point is that it leads to inhomogeneities in the energy density.

• It's a runaway situation where a little bit of inhomogeneity will tend to reinforce itself.

• When inhomogeneities are small, structure formation is described in terms of wave equations in an expanding cosmos.

  Academic text (2012)

• Dose inhomogeneity is inefficient and tends to lead to higher normal tissue doses for the same tumor control probability.

  Academic text (2002)

• The distant-galaxy or cosmological models seem to fit the key observations: isotropy and inhomogeneity.

  Academic text (1996)

• Deviations from the bulk are attributed to the compositional inhomogeneity of the Co and Cr in grain 47.

  Academic text (1996)

• We live in an exciting universe precisely because of the minuscule inhomogeneities and anisotropies that arose during its earliest moments.

  Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

H

heterogeneity

vsinhomogeneity

5 8.4

The presence of different kinds of things or people in a group

focuses instead on lack of uniformity in structure or composition

N

nonhomogeneity

vsinhomogeneity

9.9

Different parts of something that are not the same throughout

is the standard form for the same lack of uniformity

Antonyms

H

homogeneity

6 7.6

A state in which things are all the same throughout

How Uniform

uniformity

• Specialized

18 4.6

consistency

77 3.2

variability

29 5.7

patchiness

7.1

inhomogeneity

• Specialized

1 9.9

heterogeneity

5 8.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology