irregular

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It would not be irregular if I were, say, a consultant.

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Quick take

a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of irregular gathered in one view.

noun

a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

noun

merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name

adjective

contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice; "irregular hiring practices"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for irregular.

noun

a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

See also: guerrilla, guerilla, insurgent

noun

merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name

adjective

contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice; "irregular hiring practices"

adjective

not occurring at expected times

adjective

(used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces; "irregular troops"; "irregular warfare"

adjective

(of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement

adjective

falling below the manufacturer's standard; "irregular jeans"

adjective

deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal; "these days large families are atypical"; "atypical clinical findings"; "atypical pneumonia"; "highly irregular behavior"

adjective

lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker"; "employed on a temporary basis"

adjective

(of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical; "walking was difficult on the irregular cobblestoned surface"

adjective

independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians"

Example sentences

It would not be irregular if I were, say, a consultant.

Suppose you strobe it at a different or even irregular rate.

And the "irregular" handwriting effect is just subtle enough that it adds just a bit of nice "texture".

But there's an irregular data point with the BMW 3-series, because many, many people stretch to afford it.

I shouldn't be telling you anything you don't already know when I say that this is highly irregular.

[6] The head of the column had almost reached the Pendleton side when they heard "a sound resembling an irregular discharge of firearms".

It muddles further the blurry line, if any has ever existed, between regular and irregular warfare.

I then "zoomed out" and thought about the Milky Way, then about other galaxies, spiral ones and starburst ones and irregular galaxies, and the void between them.

Too many soldiers died because the common procedure for clearing a building broke down in structures of irregular layout and in cities crawling with hostiles.

There's only so much time in the day and if you want to have any type of powerful career, that will usually mean some sort of irregular hours that will mean missing important moments in a child's life.

Nobody has found the ultimate answer to that yet. GPUs execute thousands of sequential threads in parallel, and while that works for problems with massive and regular parallelism, it does not work for irregular parallelism or parallelism that requires fine grain communication or short lived parallelism or not-so-massive parallelism.

They’d beheld irregular but clean geometrical patterns glistening into infinity, felt a rightness before solutions manifested, and even shapeshifted into relevant formulas, concepts, and raw materials.

Regular HN readers will be familiar with thinkcomp's problems with this legislation and don't need you volunteering to police him; irregular or newer readers might find one of his comments informative, or might not, and either way, still don't need your help in pointing out his "coatrack".We're mostly all adults here.