regular

IPA: rˈɛgjʌɫɝ

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 an armed forces or police force.
  • A frequent customer, client or business partner.
  • (Canada) 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.

adjective

  • (Christianity) 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.
  • (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
  • (geometry, of a polyhedron) 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.
  • (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
  • (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
  • Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
  • (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language.
  • (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
  • (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
  • Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
  • (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
  • (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
  • (crystallography) Isometric.
  • (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
  • (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.

adverb

  • (archaic, dialect, nonstandard) Regularly, on a regular basis.
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