heterogeneous

adjective5

1. •
   Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.

   • He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books.
2. •
   Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
3. •
   Visibly consisting of different components.
4. •
   Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture; alternatively, of a data resource with multiple types of formats.
5. •
   Incommensurable because of different kinds.