Definition for REG-U-LAR'I-TY

REG-U-LAR'I-TY, n.

  1. Agreeableness to a rule or to established order; as, the regularity of legal proceedings.
  2. Method; certain order. Regularity is the life of business.
  3. Conformity to certain principles; as, the regularity of a figure.
  4. Steadiness or uniformity in a course; as, the regularity of the motion of a heavenly body. There is no regularity in the vicissitudes of the weather.

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