"heterogeneous" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is made up of different elements or composed of various distinct parts. For example, "The music scene in the city is a heterogeneous mix of styles and genres."
One of the structural shortcomings of the housing market is that it is quite hard to short; houses are illiquid and heterogenous.
As the voting public becomes more heterogenous, the scope for intractable disputes over government policies grows.Messrs Alesina and Spolaore reckon falling barriers to trade have reduced the cost of being a small state and boosted interest in separatism.
Here politics are more democratic, more heterogenous, things are livelier.Is Dilma more ideological than you?President: I would say we're the same.
In cells of organisms with well-defined nuclei (i.e., eukaryotes), a heterogenous RNA fraction of unknown function is constantly broken down and resynthesized in the nucleus of the cell but does not leave it.
As the work force became increasingly heterogenous, its interests were less easily subsumed under the blue-collar egalitarianism that had dominated union policies since the interwar and immediate postwar years.
Despite the interruption caused by the Mongol invasion of 1241, Transylvania (while remaining part of the Hungarian kingdom) evolved during the following centuries into a distinctive autonomous unit, with its special voivode (governor), its united, although heterogenous, leadership (descended from Szekler, Saxon, and Magyar colonists), and its own constitution.
In central and northwestern South Africa and southern Namibia these heterogenous groups of people, known variously as Basters, Griqua, Korana, Bergenaars, and Oorlams, competed for land and water with the Tswana and Nama communities and traded for or raided their ivory and cattle in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
It's tempting to characterise Jeunet's films as being themselves boxes of tricks, in which random props, heterogenous ideas, mix-and-match genres, bits of film history, allusions and snatches of music are thrown together, to be rummaged through and picked out again by their capricious owner.
But the French and Austrian offers are more heterogenous (Kitzbühel and Solden, Courchevel 1850 and Val Thorens), and the Italian range is very broad indeed.
Hybridization is important because, in crossing breeds, a more uniform product replaces the often heterogenous parent generations.
In addition, his studies on heterogenous equilibria (i.e., the behaviour of matter as a function of chemical composition, temperature, and pressure) played a major role in systematizing inorganic chemistry and contributed significantly to the development of physical chemistry as a discipline.
