| 单词 | regularity |
| 释义 | regularity (once / 1134 pages) n Something that happens with regularity is typical and expected. Fashion trends change with regularity, which is great for stores that want to sell you a new wardrobe every year. Regularity is the quality of being stable and predictable. If you exercise with regularity, you might work out every day. If your car breaks down with regularity, then you're probably used to taking the bus. If you add the prefix ir- to this word, you get irregularity — something unusual, out of the ordinary, or unexpected. WORD FAMILYregularity: regularities, unregularity+/irregular: irregularity, irregularly, irregulars/irregularity: irregularities/regular: irregular, regularise, regularity, regularize, regularly, regulars/regularise: regularisation, regularised, regularising/regularize: regularization, regularized, regularizes, regularizing USAGE EXAMPLESDuterte subsequently insisted in an interview with the BBC that he is “not an addict,” saying that “addiction is only with regularity.” Time(Dec 19, 2016) Its relentless regularity suggested something conceived and imposed from afar. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) The Jets’ pass rushers hit Brady with regularity, and he completed only one of his first five passes. Washington Post(Nov 27, 2016) 1n the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate he was famous for the regularity of his habits Ant|Hypo|Hyper irregularity, unregularity not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals cyclicity, periodicity the quality of recurring at regular intervals methodicalness, orderlinessthe quality of appreciating method and system uniformitya condition in which everything is regular and unvarying evenness, invariabilitya quality of uniformity and lack of variation even spacingregularity of spacing steadinessthe quality of being steady--regular and unvarying regular recurrence, rhythmrecurring at regular intervals organisation, organization, systeman ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized homogeneitythe quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure smoothnessthe quality of having a level and even surface quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles Syn|Hyper geometrical regularity balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane |
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