heterogeneous

adjective

1. 1

   Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.

   “He had a large and heterogeneous collection of books.”

2. 2

   Incommensurable because of different kinds.

3. 3

   Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.

4. 4

   Visibly consisting of different components.

5. 5

   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.