Part 5360

<h1>Homogenealness</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*ge"ne*al*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Homogeneousness.</def>

<h1>Homogeneity</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*ge*ne"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>homog\'82n\'82it\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Homogeneousness</er>.</def>

<h1>Homogeneous</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*ge"ne*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ the same + <?/ race, kind: cf. F. <ets>homog\'8ane</ets>. See <er>Same</er>, and <er>Kin</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to <i>heterogeneous</i>; <as>as, <ex>homogeneous</ex> particles, elements, or principles; <ex>homogeneous</ex> bodies.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Alg.)</fld> <def>Possessing the same number of factors of a given kind; <as>as, a <ex>homogeneous</ex> polynomial</as>.</def>

<h1>Homogeneousness</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*ge"ne*ous*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.</def>

<h1>Homogenesis</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*gen"e*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Homo-</ets> + <ets>genesis</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to <i>heterogenesis</i>.</def>

<h1>Homogenetic</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*ge*net"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.</def>

<h1>Homogenous</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho*mog"e*nous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See <er>Homoplastic</er>.</def>

<h1>Homogeny</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho*mog"e*ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ the same + <?/ race, kind.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Joint nature.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede <i>homology</i> by Lankester, who also used <i>homoplasy</i> to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term <i>homoplasmy</i>). Thus, there is <i>homogeny</i> between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in <i>homoplasy</i> with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.</def>

<h1>Homogonous</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho*mog"o*nous</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/. See <er>Homogeneous</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils.</def>

<h1>Homogony</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho*mog"o*ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The condition of having homogonous flowers.</def>

<h1>Homograph</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Hom"o*graph</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <grk>"omo`grafos</grk> with the same letters; <grk>"omo`s</grk> the same + <grk>gra`fein</grk> to write.]</ety> <fld>(Philol.)</fld> <def>One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; <as>as, <ex>fair</ex>, <tt>n.</tt>, a market, and <ex>fair</ex>, <tt>a.</tt>, beautiful</as>.</def>

<h1>Homographic</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*graph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>Possessing the property of homography.</def>