单词 | evenness |
释义 | evenness (once / 15370 pages) 1n 2n Evenness is the characteristic of being regular, smooth, or homogeneous. Part of what's beautiful about snow when it first falls is its undisturbed evenness. When you're sanding the top of a table or spreading asphalt on a driveway, evenness is what you're aiming for. Another kind of evenness is a balance or equity between things: "The evenness of their salaries seemed fair to the restaurant's employees." Yet another way to have evenness is to be an even number, divisible by two — consider, for example, the evenness of the number 14 as opposed to the number 17. WORD FAMILYeven: evened, evener, evenest, eveningly, evenly, evenness, evens, uneven+/uneven: unevenly, unevenness/unevenness: unevennesses USAGE EXAMPLESBut the evenness of it would be good. The Guardian(Jun 05, 2016) His book is less trippy than you might expect, and the evenness of his tone helps normalize the urges and visions of his characters. The New Yorker(May 17, 2016) He sang with evenness throughout his range, with tender pianissimos and, when called for, with engaging feistiness. New York Times(Mar 06, 2016) 1 1n a quality of uniformity and lack of variation Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper invariability unevenness, variability the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity smoothness the quality of having a level and even surface regularity the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate 2n the quality of being balanced 2Ant|Hyper unevenness the quality of being unbalanced equality the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status n the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) Hyper parity (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity |
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