Unevenness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uneven \Un*e"ven\, a. [AS. unefen. See {Un-} not, and {Even},
     a.]
     1. Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven
        road or way; uneven ground.
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     2. Not equal; not of equal length.
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              Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. --Peacham.
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     3. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of
        numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.
        [1913 Webster] {Un*e"ven*ly}, adv. -- {Un*e"ven*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unevenness
       n 1: a quality of variability and lack of uniformity [syn: {variability}]
            [ant: {evenness}, {evenness}]
       2: the quality of being unbalanced [ant: {evenness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  120 Moby Thesaurus words for "unevenness":
     adulteration, arrhythmia, asperity, asymmetry, brokenness,
     bumpiness, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness,
     choppiness, contrariety, cragginess, dappleness, defectibility,
     defectiveness, deficiency, desultoriness, deviation, difference,
     differentiation, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disequilibrium,
     disorder, disparity, disproportion, divarication, divergence,
     diversification, eccentricity, erraticness, erroneousness,
     fallibility, faultiness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts,
     fluctuation, granulation, harshness, heterogeneity, hispidity,
     imbalance, immaturity, impairment, imparity, imperfection,
     impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness,
     inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, inequity, inexactitude,
     inexactness, injustice, instability, insufficiency, intermittence,
     irregularity, jaggedness, jerkiness, joltiness, lack, mediocrity,
     mercuriality, motleyness, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity,
     nonstandardization, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance, patchiness,
     pluralism, raggedness, rough air, roughness, ruggedness, rugosity,
     scraggliness, shortage, shortcoming, sketchiness, spasticity,
     sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, tooth, turbulence,
     unbalance, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undevelopment,
     unfair discrimination, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy,
     unperfectedness, unpredictability, unsmoothness, unsoundness,
     unsteadiness, unsystematicness, ununiformity, variability,
     variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, want,
     wavering, whimsicality, wobble