Definition of "patchiness" []

• The condition of being patchy (noun)

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• "(I'm the first to admit that there is a certain patchiness to the collection."
• "Now, that kind of patchiness could reflect horizontal heat transport as wella s vertical, but it MUST have involved oceanic transport, not simply sea-air transport."
• "What seems to be emerging is that heterogeneity, or "patchiness", and diversity is very much more important to nature than an ecologically correct apartheid between "exotics" and"