Regular may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
"Regular" (Badfinger song)
of stringed instruments, tunings with equal intervals between the paired notes of successive open strings
Other uses
Regular character, a main character who appears more frequently and/or prominently than a recurring character
Regular division of the plane, a series of drawings by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which began in 1936
Language
Regular inflection, the formation of derived forms such as plurals in ways that are typical for the language
Regular script , the newest of the Chinese script styles
Mathematics
Algebra and number theory
Regular category , a kind of category that has similarities to both Abelian categories and to the category of sets
in computer algebra
Regular element (disambiguation), certain kinds of elements of an algebraic structure
Regular extension of fields
Regular ideal (multiple definitions)
Regular Lie group
Regular matrix (disambiguation)
Regular monomorphisms and regular epimorphisms, monomorphisms (resp. epimorphisms) which equalize (resp. coequalize) some parallel pair of morphisms
, numbers which evenly divide a power of 60
Regular p-group , a concept capturing some of the more important properties of abelian p -groups, but general enough to include most "small" p -groups
Regular prime , a prime number p > 2 that does not divide the class number of the p -th cyclotomic field
The regular representation of a group G, the linear representation afforded by the group action of G on itself
Regular ring , a ring such that all its localizations have Krull dimension equal to the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal
von Neumann regular ring, or absolutely flat ring (unrelated to the previous sense)
Regular semi-algebraic systems in computer algebra
Regular semigroup, related to the previous sense
*-regular semigroup
Analysis
Borel regular measure
Cauchy-regular function (or Cauchy-continuous function,) a continuous function between metric spaces which preserves Cauchy sequences
, functions that are analytic and single-valued (unique) in a given region
Regular measure , a measure for which every measurable set is "approximately open" and "approximately closed"
The regular part , of a Laurent series, the series of terms with positive powers
Regular singular points, in theory of ordinary differential equations where the growth of solutions is bounded by an algebraic function
Regularity, the degree of differentiability of a function
Regularity conditions arise in the study of first-class constraints in Hamiltonian mechanics
Regularity of an elliptic operator
Regularity theory of elliptic partial differential equations
Combinatorics, discrete math, and mathematical computer science
Regular algebra , or Kleene algebra
Regular code , an algebraic code with a uniform distribution of distances between codewords
Regular expression, a type of pattern describing a set of strings in computer science
Regular graph , a graph such that all the degrees of the vertices are equal
Szemerédi regularity lemma, some random behaviors in large graphs
Regular language , a formal language recognizable by a finite state automaton (related to the regular expression)
Regular map (graph theory), a symmetric tessellation of a closed surface
Regular matroid , a matroid which can be represented over any field
Regular paperfolding sequence, also known as the dragon curve sequence
Regular tree grammar
Geometry
Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of a coherent sheaf
Closed regular sets in solid modeling
Irregularity of a surface in algebraic geometry
Regular grid , a tesselation of Euclidean space by congruent bricks
Regular map (algebraic geometry), a map between varieties given by polynomials
Regular point, a non-singular point of an algebraic variety
Regular point of a differentiable map, a point at which a map is a submersion
, polygons with all sides and angles equal
Regular polyhedron, a generalization of a regular polygon to higher dimensions
Regular polytope , a generalization of a regular polygon to higher dimensions
Regular skew polyhedron
Logic, set theory, and foundations
Axiom of Regularity, also called the Axiom of Foundation, an axiom of set theory asserting the non-existence of certain infinite chains of sets
Partition regularity
Regular cardinal , a cardinal number that is equal to its cofinality
Regular modal logic
Probability and statistics
Regular conditional probability, a concept that has developed to overcome certain difficulties in formally defining conditional probabilities for continuous probability distributions
Regular stochastic matrix, a stochastic matrix such that all the entries of some power of the matrix are positive
Topology
Free regular set, a subset of a topological space that is acted upon disjointly under a given group action
Regular homotopy
Regular isotopy in knot theory, the equivalence relation of link diagrams that is generated by using the 2nd and 3rd Reidemeister moves only
Regular space (or T_3 ) space, a topological space in which a point and a closed set can be separated by neighborhoods
Military
Organizations
Regular Baptists , an 18th-century American and Canadian Baptist group
Regular clergy , members of a religious order subject to a rule of life
Regular Masonic jurisdictions, or regularity , refers to the constitutional mechanism by which Freemasonry Grand Lodges or Grand Orients give one another mutual recognition
People
Science and social science
Regular economy , an economy characterized by an excess demand function whose slope at any equilibrium price vector is non-zero
Regular moon , a natural satellite that has low eccentricity and a relatively close and prograde orbit
in chemistry, solutions that diverge from the behavior of an ideal solution only moderately
Other uses
Regular bowel movements, the opposite of constipation
Regular customer , a person who frequently visits the same restaurant, pub, store, transit provider, etc.
Regular octane rating of gasoline, as a differentiation from "premium" and similar variants
Regular stance (or footedness) in boardsports, a stance in which the left foot leads (as compared to "goofy")
Regular type, referring to Roman type , an upright style of typeface or computer font, as compared to italic and blackletter
See also
Irregular (disambiguation)
Regular set (disambiguation)
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