non-uniform
Adjective
Meaning
non-uniform (comparative more non-uniform, superlative most non-uniform)
Alternative form of nonuniform
Synonyms
Examples
Any non-uniform magnetic field, whether caused by permanent magnets or electric currents, exerts a force on a small magnet in this way.
A non-uniform distribution increases the number of collisions and the cost of resolving them.
Electronic vector displays were typically monochrome only, and either don't fill in the interiors of closed vector shapes, or shape-filling is slow, time-consuming, and often non-uniform, as on pen-based plotters.
Indeed, let us denote with the spatially non-uniform concentration of the chemo-attractant and with its gradient.
General relativity further By 1916, Einstein was able to generalize this further, to deal with all states of motion including non-uniform acceleration, which became the general theory of relativity.
A substance at non-uniform temperature is at a lower entropy (than if the heat distribution is allowed to even out) and some of the thermal energy can drive a heat engine.