Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being irregular.
- noun Something irregular.
- noun Constipation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of regularity; the state of being irregular; deviation from rule, method, order, course, uniformity, etc.; hence, impropriety; disorder; laxity: as, irregularity of proceedings; the irregularity of a curve; irregularity of life or conduct.
- noun That which is irregular or out of due course; a part exhibiting divergence from the rest; hence, aberrant or immoral action or conduct: as, an irregularity on a surface; to be guilty of irregularities.
- noun In law, an act or proceeding not wholly beyond the power of the court or party, but done in a manner not warranted by the law or the state of the cause.
- noun In botany, want of uniformity in size, shape, or measure of union among the members of the same floral circle.
- noun Eccles., in the Roman Catholic Church, infraction of the rules governing admission to the clerical office and discharge of its functions; a canonical impediment to reception of orders, exercise of clerical functions, or advancement in the church.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable An instance of being
irregular . - noun uncountable The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
- noun countable An
object orevent that is notregular orordinary . - noun countable A
violation of rules.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
- noun behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
- noun irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis
- noun an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern
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Examples
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As Shelley scholar Neil Fraistat assures me, this claim of "irregularity" is rare if not unique in Shelley's work.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006
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The spokesman, however, said that although the vote tally affected by such an irregularity is over 3 million, "it has yet to be determined whether the amount is decisive in the election results," reported Khabaronline.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Sunday June 21) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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But irregularity is even more prominent in Wordsworth's prosody.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006
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This irregularity is very considerable at the surface of the earth.
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First item on the To Do list: make it get back on its feet after its numerous times tripping over every terrain irregularity.
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First item on the To Do list: make it get back on its feet after its numerous times tripping over every terrain irregularity.
The Robot Cheetah 2009
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Voter irregularity, which is something that, as a network, we have been on top of and talking about.
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Indeed, so far as its physical aspect is concerned, with its flat, unvaried surface, covered chiefly with wooden houses, few or none of which pretend to architectural beauty — its irregularity, which is neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame — its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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I don't think right now it's a question of fraud but rather. irregularity, which is a little bit different.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: The Florida Recount - November 9, 2000 2000
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But it isn't a question so much of fraud, but it's a question at this point of irregularity, which is a little bit different.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: The Florida Recount - November 9, 2000 2000
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