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heterology

Heterology is a 10 letter word which starts with the letter H and ends with the letter Y for which we found 2 definitions.

Definition
(n.) The absence of correspondence or relation in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts owing to their being composed of different elements or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.
(n.) The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance or of the analogous members of different series; as ethane ethyl alcohol acetic aldehyde and acetic acid are in heterology with each other though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology.
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