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EVENNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being balanced
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("evenness" is a kind of...):
equality (the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status)
Antonym:
unevenness (the quality of being unbalanced)
Derivation:
even (equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced)
even (of the score in a contest)
even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A quality of uniformity and lack of variation
Synonyms:
evenness; invariability
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("evenness" is a kind of...):
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Attribute:
even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))
uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evenness"):
smoothness (the quality of having a level and even surface)
Antonym:
unevenness (the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity)
Derivation:
even (occurring at fixed intervals)
even (symmetrically arranged)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The parity of even numbers (divisible by two)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("evenness" is a kind of...):
parity ((mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity)
