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Regularity

noun

A property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles. Synonym: geometrical regularity.

The quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate.

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"Regularity" Quotes from Famous Books

... silver plates heavily chased, linked together with delicate silver links. Her long braids were bound around her beautiful round head, and this fashion of hair-dressing, with its classic parting, brought out the purity of her features and the coin-like regularity of them. I saw at once that she was older than I had thought her on the beach: I had not given ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

... on her circumscribed round with as much undeviating, mechanical regularity, as if beyond that narrow space rose a barrier which caged her from ever setting foot on the earth beyond. At length she pauses in her course when it brings her nearest to the wicket, advances a few steps towards it, ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... Miss Fennimore had early given up the case, and never scolded her for her failures; she made her attempt less, and she was improving more, and shedding fewer tears than under any former dynasty. Even a stern dominion is better for the subjects than an uncertain and weak one; regularity gives a sense of reliance; and constant occupation leaves so little time for being naughty, that Bertha herself was getting into training, and on the present day her lessons were exemplary, always with a view to the promised walk with her brother, one of the greatest pleasures ever enjoyed ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... principal Queen, he admired the singular architecture of her mansion, the height of the round columns, the size and beauty of the wood, which was curiously shaped or turned, or polished or carved; and his attentive eye was able to discover some taste in the ornaments and some regularity ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various

... have had an influence in some cases. Doubtless this will be better understood as different stocks are used by the leaders in pecan breeding. Varieties also are known to differ greatly in their degree of hardiness. However, failure upon the part of otherwise normal trees to bear paying crops with regularity is not necessarily due to low temperatures. Other factors, such as self-sterility, may be wholly responsible for at least the ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting • Various

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