regular
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛɡjʊlə/
The English word “regular” has 20 meanings listed here.
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
- 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.
- Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
- 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.
- A von Neumann regular: such that every left module (over the given ring) is flat.
Etymology
From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“move in a straight line”).
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