Meaning & use
Inhomogeneous
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Not uniform in composition or structure throughout.
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The material's inhomogeneous density made it difficult to model accurately.
Scientists detected inhomogeneous regions in the early universe that later became galaxies.
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Common in physics, chemistry, and mathematics to describe systems that vary in properties across space.
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