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The term regular can mean normal or in accordance with rules. It may refer to:

Organizations

Entertainment

Language

Mathematics

There is an extremely large number of unrelated notions of "regularity" in mathematics.

Algebra and number theory

(See also the geometry section for notions related to algebraic geometry.)

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

  • Regular (or ) space, a topological space in which a point and a closed set can be separated by neighborhoods
  • Regular homotopy
  • Free regular set, a subset of a topological space that is acted upon disjointly under a given group action
  • Regular isotopy in knot theory, the equivalence relation of link diagrams that is generated by using the 2nd and 3rd Reidemeister moves only

Other sciences

  • Regular bowel movements, the opposite of constipation
  • Regular solutions in chemistry, solutions that diverge from the behavior of an ideal solution only moderately
  • Regular economy, an economy characterized by an excess demand function whose slope at any equilibrium price vector is non-zero

Other uses

  • Regular character, a main character who appears more frequently and/or prominently than a recurring character
  • Regular customer, a person who visits the same restaurant, pub, store, or transit provider frequently
  • Regular tunings of stringed instruments, tunings with equal intervals between the paired notes of successive open strings
  • Regular footedness in boardsports, a stance in which the left foot leads
  • Regular division of the plane, a series of drawings by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which began in 1936
  • The Regular Baptists, an 18th-century American and Canadian Baptist group
  • Regular moon, a natural satellite that has low eccentricity and a relatively close and prograde orbit

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