Regular may refer to:
Music
Other uses
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
- Regular chains 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
- Regular numbers, 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
- Regular semi-algebraic systems in computer algebra
- Regular semigroup, related to the previous sense
- *-regular semigroup
Analysis
Combinatorics, discrete math, and mathematical computer science
Geometry
Logic, set theory, and foundations
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
) 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
- Regular solutions 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
Topics referred to by the same term
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