What exactly is regularity, once a day, a few times a day once every few days?
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Nellie Wise Gamgee
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Regular really only means that something is done repeatedly at intervals of roughly the same length. My birthdays come with regularity, once every year, and the garbagemen collect my garbage from my house, once every week, and both are regular. So you cannot define how frequently something has to happen for it to be called "regular", it all depends on context as to whether you would consider something "regular" or not. When people talk of "regular bowel movements", context dictates that "regular" means several times a day at intervals... when they talk about a "regular heartbeat", context says that "regular" means at least every second... and as I already said, birthdays are "regular" at once a year. So really you cannot define "regularity" in the terms you are asking us to.
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"regular 1) with constant frequency or pattern. 2) normal; ordinary 3) obeying rules 4) (grammar) (of a verb, plural, etc) following a set or common pattern - The verb "to walk" is regular. - The noun "mouse" has the irregular plural "mice". 5) frequent or common He made regular visits to go see his mother. 6) (snowboarding): Riding with the left foot forward." Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/regular Further meanings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularity I think you are talking about the first meaning: regularity is, if something happens with constant frequency or pattern. Or maybe you wanted to know what does it mean when they tell you you should do something (such as jogging) regularly. The answer would depend on what it is, and better you ask the people who tell this what they mean.
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