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      regular
      noun
      A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
      A frequent customer, client or business partner.
      (television) A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
      A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
      A member of the armed forces or police force.
      (Singapore) Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of service in the military.
      (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
      (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
      Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
      Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
      Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
      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.
      (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
      (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language.
      (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
      (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
      (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.
      (commutative algebra, not comparable, of a local ring) Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
      (algebraic geometry, not comparable, of a scheme) Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
      (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
      (obsolete, not comparable, of a ring) A von Neumann regular: such that every left module (over the given ring) is flat.
      adverb
      (archaic, dialect, nonstandard) Regularly, on a regular basis.
      Roots
      regulareg- · Latin · straight stick, rule
      Synonyms for regular
      usualadjperiodicadjnormaladjsteadyadjhabitualadjordinaryadjfrequentadjroutineadjbiweeklyadvhebdomadaladjeverydayadjbimonthlyadvcustomaryadjweeklyadvrecurringadjdailyadvwontedadjfortnightlyadvmonthlyadv
      Words related to regular
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