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Regularity   /rˌɛgjəlˈɛrəti/   Listen
Regularity

noun
1.
A property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles.  Synonym: geometrical regularity.
2.
The quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate.



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"Regularity" Quotes from Famous Books



... as beneficial to apple-trees as to all transplanted trees. Well done, it preserves a regularity of moisture that almost insures ...
— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden

... Hebrew remained a living language, that is, the language of the masses of the people, this outline alphabet was sufficient for all practical purposes. The modern Arabs read without difficulty their ordinary books, which omit, in like manner, the signs for the vowels. The regularity of structure which belongs to the Shemitic languages generally, makes this omission less inconvenient for them than a like omission would be for us ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows

... lines of adverse opinion about the negro as a workman; first, nine-tenths of the complaints of employers are that he is too slow. He does not make the speed that the routine of efficient industry demands. He is lacking in the regularity demanded by routine of industry day by day. Second, the negro has been observed to be disinclined to work out-of-doors when the cold weather comes. Employers have discussed this and have not found the negro satisfactory on this point. ...
— Negro Migration during the War • Emmett J. Scott

... accident or convenience dictated, and of course they were all confusedly intermixed. Some time after, when the new ground was consolidated, various excavations were made in it, and the different materials of which the filling was composed were found to be stratified with considerable regularity, according ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

... capital with more or less regularity, and called on the Pressons with fully as much appearance of being entirely at home as his newer rival. When they were together the girl treated both with impartial interest and attention. She listened to each in turn, and if ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day


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