Irregularity
[ɪ,regjʊ'lærɪtɪ] or [ɪ'rɛgjə'lærəti]
Definition
(noun.) not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals.
(noun.) an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern.
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Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Aberration, abnormity, anomaly, anomalousness, singularity.[2]. Uncertainty, capriciousness, variableness, changeableness.[3]. Want of method, want of symmetry.[4]. Immorality, incorrectness, vice, impropriety, indecorum, laxity, sin, iniquity.
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Examples
- Having corrected the irregularity, she seated herself on one of the glossy purple arm-chairs; Mrs. Peniston always sat on a chair, never in it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- What irregularity? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The irregularity of growth and its significance is indicated in the following passage of a student of the growth of the nervous system. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The employment of a high-pitched musical note in the telephone is also an advantage because its extreme regularity distinguishes it from the marked irregularity of the stray waves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Perhaps it was from the fiancé of one of the engaged pupils; and, in that case, there was no great harm done or intended--only a small irregularity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He shall find no irregularity about ME, Emmy, the old gentleman said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She was the diplomatist of Tipton and Freshitt, and for anything to happen in spite of her was an offensive irregularity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He might well be a little shocked at the irregularity of my lineaments, his own being so harmonious. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When we got there the parson wouldn't marry us because of some trifling irregularity in the license. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- New York was inexorable in its condemnation of business irregularities. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Leverrier at the request of Arago had undertaken to investigate the irregularities in th e tables of Uranus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I seemed to be lying in a deep, circular basin, along the outer verge of which I could distinguish the irregularities of low hills. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- All such irregularities must be summarily punished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It may be the office has helped to cover some of his canonical irregularities. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He owned with contrition that his irregularities and his extravagance had already wasted a large part of his mother's little fortune. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Around this the suns keep their orbits harmoniously, all apparent irregularities arising from our eccentric view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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