Adjective

1. Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
2. Incommensurable because of different kinds.
3. : Having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas) present in a system or process.
4. : Visibly consisting of different components.
5. (information technology): A network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture. Alternatively, a data resource with multiple types of formats.