regularity

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French regularite, from Old French regularite, from Late Latin rēgulāritās, rēgulāritātem, from rēgulāris; see regular. By surface analysis, regular +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/

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Noun

regularity (countable and uncountable, plural regularities)

1. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being regular

   Synonym: (proscribed) regularness

   I have been watching that show with regularity.

   • 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport‎:

     For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.

2. (countable) A particular regular occurrence

Antonyms

• irregularity

Derived terms

• axiom of regularity
• biregularity
• equiregularity
• nonregularity
• quasiregularity
• regioregularity
• semiregularity
• stereoregularity
• subregularity

Related terms

• regular

Translations

condition or quality of being regular

Bulgarian: редовност (bg) f (redovnost), правилност (bg) (pravilnost) Catalan: regularitat f, periodicitat f Chinese: Mandarin: 正則性 / 正则性 (zhèngzéxìng), 規則性 / 规则性 (zh) (guīzéxìng) Czech: pravidelnost f Dutch: regelmaat (nl) f, regelmatigheid (nl) f French: régularité (fr) f Galician: regularidade (gl) f German: Regelmäßigkeit (de) f Greek: κανονικότητα (el) f (kanonikótita) Hindi: नियमितता f (niyamittā) Irish: rialtacht f Japanese: 規則性 (きそくせい, kisokusei), 正則性 (せいそくせい, seisokusei) Latvian: likumība f, likumsakarība (lv) f Marathi: नियमितता f (niyamitatā) Polish: regularność (pl) f, prawidłowość (pl) f Portuguese: regularidade (pt) f Spanish: regularidad f, periodicidad f

Further reading

• “regularity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “regularity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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