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HOMOGENEOUS

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or HOMOGENEAL (composed of the Greek ὁμος, "like," and γένος, "kind"), is a term applied to various subjects, to denote, that they consist of similar parts, or of parts of the same nature and kind; in contradistinction to heterogeneous, where the parts are of different natures, &c.