HOMOLOGY Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

homology

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Definition of homology

as in homogeneity

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Recent Examples of homology And then another challenge is relatives have shared HLA homology. — Torie Bosch, STAT, 1 June 2026 Persistent homology accomplishes this by coding each layer of color to a shape. — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2026 In 1984, the genome of Shope virus was sequenced, which revealed significant homology with HPV type 1a. — Matthew Binnicker, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Which part of the complex manifold’s homology can be obtained by looking at these topological invariants? — Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024

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The government favored loans to racially homogeneous suburban developments, and racial covenants maintained that homogeneity.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Sklansky said the success of community policing is not based on that city size or homogeneity but whether police officers are committed to building relationships with the community.

— Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of homogeneity

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While that enthusiasm is beginning to wane, in some ways because of AI, over the first quarter of this century, Big Tech solidified the equivalence of tech skills, wealth, and power.

— Kamau Bobb October 21, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Holography is another step in that tradition, an equivalence between area and volume that holds at least for certain spaces.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of equivalence

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The spiritual oneness with God that Christ Jesus so beautifully demonstrated in his life, is ours to demonstrate as well.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2026
Western scholars also variously understand the concept of brahman in the Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta as a version of monism (the oneness of all things), pantheism (all is god), or panentheism (god is the whole universe and beyond).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

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