Regular
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The term regular can mean normal or obeying rules. Regular may refer to:
In organizations:
- Regular Army for usage in the U.S. Army
- Regular Force for usage in the Canadian Forces
- Regular Masonic jurisdictions, or regularity, refers to the constitutional mechanism by which Freemasonry Grand Lodges or Grand Orients give one another mutual recognition.
In mathematics, geometry, and statistics:
- Regular polygon, a polygon where all angles and all sides are equal
- Regular polyhedron, a 3-dimensional equivalent to a regular polygon
- Regular category, a kind of category that has similarities to both Abelian categories and to the category of sets
- Regular prime, a certain kind of prime number
- Regular graph, a graph such that all the degrees of the vertices are equal
- Regular cardinal, a cardinal number that is equal to its cofinality
- Regular space, a topological space in which a point and a closed set can be separated by neighbourhoods
- Regularity, the degree of differentiability of a Smooth function
- Regularity, a necessary condition in Fisher information and in finding the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound
- Axiom of Regularity, also called the Axiom of Foundation, an axiom of set theory asserting the non-existence of certain infinite chains of sets
In other uses:
- Regular character, a main character who appears more frequently and/or prominently than a recurring character
- Regular expression, a type of pattern describing a set of strings in computer science
- Regular verb, a grammatical term for a verb with derived forms that are typical for the language