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regular
/ˈɹɛɡjəlɚ/
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What does regular mean?
adjective
- Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
- Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
More meanings (29)
adjective
- Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
- Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
- Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
- Of a verb, plural, etc., following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
- Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
- Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
- Having normal bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals.
- Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
- Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- Isometric.
- Riding with the left foot forward.
- Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
- Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
- Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
- (archaic) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
- (obsolete) A von Neumann regular: such that every left module (over the given ring) is flat.
noun
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A member of the armed forces or police force.
- Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
- A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- Anything that is normal or standard.
- A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
- A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
- A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
adverb
- (archaic) Regularly, on a regular basis.
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IPA pronunciation
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.
Kantos Kan thought that the docks there, in addition to their regular work, would accommodate at least six battleships at a time.
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He was mowing, and mumbling, and gesticulating, and drawing mystical figures in the air and on the floor,--the regular thing, you know.
Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the material, world depend, had complained.
How handsome the great sweeping curves in the edge of the ice, answering somewhat to those of the shore, but more regular!