regularity

/'regju'læriti/

Thân thiện

He practices the piano with great regularity.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The quality or state of being regular: This refers to something happening or being done at fixed, even intervals or according to a consistent pattern, rule, or principle.
   • Symmetry or evenness of form or arrangement: This refers to a property of having balanced, uniform, or equal parts, such as in geometric shapes.

Examples of Usage

• General Usage:
  • The regularity of the bus service makes commuting very reliable.
  • She admired the regularity of the waves crashing on the shore.
• Mathematical/Geometric Usage:
  • A square is a shape known for its regularity, with four equal sides and four right angles.

Advanced Usage

• "With clockwork regularity": Used to emphasize that something happens at extremely precise and predictable intervals.
  • The old lighthouse beam swept the bay with clockwork regularity.
• Statistical Regularity: A principle in statistics that aggregate behavior in large groups tends to be stable and predictable.
  • Statistical regularity allows insurers to calculate risk based on large population data.

Variants and Related Words

• Regular (adj): Happening or doing something frequently or at fixed intervals; conforming to a rule or pattern.
  • He is a regular customer at the café.
• Regularly (adv): At uniform or fixed intervals; in a regular manner.
  • The team meets regularly every Monday.
• Regularize (verb): To make something regular or correct according to an official rule.
  • The government moved to regularize the status of undocumented workers.

Synonyms

• Consistency: The quality of always behaving or happening in a similar way.
• Uniformity: The quality of being the same in all cases and at all times.
• Orderliness: The quality of being neatly arranged or organized.

Antonyms

• Irregularity: The state or quality of being irregular; lack of a pattern or fixed principle.
• Inconsistency: The quality of not being consistent or having contradictions.
• Randomness: The quality of lacking a pattern or predictable order.

Related Phrases

• Regularity condition (Technical): A mathematical or scientific condition required for a theory, model, or function to be valid or well-behaved.
  • The solution to the equation must satisfy certain regularity conditions.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate
   • he was famous for the regularity of his habits
2. a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles

Từ đồng nghĩa

• geometrical regularity