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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
regularity
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with monotonous regularity
▪ a little boy who wet his bed with monotonous regularity
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Lloyds, Southeys and Wordsworths appeared on most subscribers' lists with great regularity.
▪ Those groundbreaking roles came to me with a great deal of regularity.
monotonous
▪ The ineffable Louis Stanley, operating from his suite in the Dorchester, launched new but already outmoded cars with monotonous regularity.
▪ Indeed, he was a sickly child, succumbing with monotonous regularity to ear and throat infections.
▪ This magnet for unwanted paper will fill up and overflow with monotonous regularity and should be abolished.
▪ He was still hitting greens with monotonous regularity, but on the putting surface his touch had deserted him.
▪ Learners like hand-outs, but they should not be used with monotonous regularity to echo everything the teacher says.
■ VERB
increase
▪ Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A good programmer can take anything known, any regularity, and cleverly reduce it in size.
▪ At Ohio State, Pace flattened defensive line men with regularity.
▪ But the striking and distinguishing feature of organisms is organisation without such simple spatial regularity.
▪ His life was one of unambitious regularity.
▪ Interest and dividends are paid with regularity.
▪ The ineffable Louis Stanley, operating from his suite in the Dorchester, launched new but already outmoded cars with monotonous regularity.
▪ They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order.
▪ Those groundbreaking roles came to me with a great deal of regularity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regularity

Regularity \Reg`u*lar"i*ty\ (-l?r"?*t?), n. [Cf. F. r['e]gularit['e].] The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
regularity

c.1600, from Middle French regularite, from Medieval Latin *regularitas, from Latin regularis (see regular (adj.)).

Wiktionary
regularity

n. (context uncountable English) The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline

WordNet
regularity

  1. n. a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles [syn: geometrical regularity]

  2. the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits" [ant: irregularity]

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Usage examples of "regularity".

Celia what news I had from Mammy Venus, though I hid from her the regularity as well as the fuller content of our correspondence.

If you have no bodily defects any one of these outdoor sports will probably give your muscles all the exercise needed, but if you are suffering from defects of any kind and you are desirous of remedying them some special exercises adapted to your individual needs should be taken with religious regularity.

I must reluctantly admit that Clark can outguess me with maddening regularity.

In order to insure even greater regularity, have the kindness to draw up, to cover the interval that will elapse before I make my final definite donation, a provisionary document, setting forth the engagement that I have undertaken to carry out.

There was nothing for black men to do, therefore, but turn inward, turn toward themselves, turn, if necessary, upon themselves, acting out in internecine battle the very hatred that had been forced upon them, that was played out with quotidian regularity in the pageantry of social myth.

Back in his recliner, eyes closed and lungs pumping with a forced regularity, he slipped back into full interface.

In a moment the paddles were dipping with machinelike regularity, shoving the crude craft forward at a fair clip.

I also wish to state that I saw the right wing of the Thirteenth extend and advance in skirmishing order, and that nothing could exceed the steadiness and regularity with which they advanced.

But where my unmilitary glance could trace no regularity, the young lieutenant was perfectly at home.

The scenery around it is magnificent, and though the buildings of the establishment are constructed with the handsome and unpicturesque regularity which marks the work of governments, they are so nobly placed, and so embosomed in woods, that they look beautiful.

After half a dozen displays had been reduced to spots in the vitrine, a ghostly regularity appeared.

For example, if we program a drum machine to emit beats at a particular regular interval, we can detect the regularity of the beat, and are sensitive to any errors or changes in the timing.

Each time a stone from the ballista struck the wall there was a shout, but there was nothing spontaneous in the demonstration, which seemed as perfunctory as the mechanical operation of the ancient war-engine that delivered its missiles with almost clocklike regularity.

Frustration levels among the crew waxed and waned with clocklike regularity, leading Caldaq to believe a psychologist should have been appointed captain rather than a fighter.

She stroked with clocklike regularity, taking deep, even bites of the lake.