Unevenness

Definition: Unevenness

Unevenness

Noun

1. A quality of variability and lack of uniformity.

2. The quality of being unbalanced.

Date "unevenness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	Fault of a road in which the running surface is irregular. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Unevenness

Synonym: variability (n). (additional references)

Antonym: evenness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inequality	Noun: inequality; disparity, imparity; odds; difference; unevenness; inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight; shortcoming; casting weight, make-weight; superiority; inferiority; inequation.
Nonuniformity	Noun: diversity, irregularity, unevenness; multiformity; unconformity; roughness; dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication, divergence.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unevenness

English words defined with "unevenness": Brokenness, burl ♦ knot ♦ patchiness ♦ slub ♦ Unequalness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unevenness": CRUSHER-AND-BLENDER OPERATOR ♦ embossed paper, embossed paperboard ♦ goffered paper ♦ INSPECTOR I ♦ pulverizer operator ♦ QUALITY-CONTROL CHECKER. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Shrinking World?: Global Unevenness and Inequality (Shape of the World Book, 2) (reference) Control of Active Suspension With Parameter Uncertainty and Non-White Road Unevenness Disturbance Input/902283 (reference) The unevenness of the abilities of dull and of bright children (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Even a slight unevenness of color or other minor blemish can be a reason for products to be returned to the manufacturer by retailers. (references)
Economic History	Costa Rica	This unevenness is attributed by sources in the local pharmaceutical business to the fact that several important U.S. manufacturers have relocated their operations to Mexico in the last several years to take advantage of the NAFTA benefits. (references)
	China	These practices include high tariffs, lack of transparency, requiring firms to obtain special permission to import goods, unevenness of application of laws and regulations, and leveraging technology from foreign firms in return for market access. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Unevenness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unevenness" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	41	53,521

Language		Translations for "unevenness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pabarazi (disparity, imparity, inequality). (various references)

Bulgarian		неравност (accident, asperity, bump, inequality, irregularity, rough, roughness). (various references)

Chinese		不均. (various references)

Czech		nestejnomìrnost, nerovnost (bump, disparity, inequality, odds, roughness), nepravidelnost (irregularity), nejistota (doubt, insecurity, uncertainty), kostrbatost, křivost. (various references)

Danish		ujaevnhed (difference of level, rough protuberances), ujævnhed (roughness, rugosity, texture), hoejdeforskel (difference of level). (various references)

Dutch		onvlakheid (roughness), hoogteverschil (difference of level, intercept). (various references)

Finnish		rosoisuus (roughness), epätasaisuus (inequality). (various references)

French		denivellement, dénivellation, défaut d'uni, défaut de planéité. (various references)

German		Unebenheit (bulge, bump, bumpiness, irregularity, roughness). (various references)

Greek		ανωμαλία (abnormality, abnormity, anomaly, irregularity, scragginess). (various references)

Hungarian		egyenlõtlenség (disparity, disproportion, inequality). (various references)

Italian		disuguaglianza (difference, imparity, inequality, odds), disparit� (disparity, dissimilarity, inequality, oddness, odds), dislivello (difference, difference in level, drop, inequality), differenza di livello (difference of level, level difference, sound isolation between rooms), difetto di uniformit� (roughness), difetto di scorrevolezza (roughness), difetto di regolarit� superficiale (roughness), asperit� (abruptness, asperity, bump, gruffness, roughness, rub). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		凹凸 (roughness, ruggedness), 凸凹 (roughness, ruggedness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おうとつ (roughness, ruggedness), ふぞろい (irregularity, lack of uniformity), ふそろい (irregularity, lack of uniformity), ふせい (asymmetry, correction, dishonesty, illegality, impropriety, iniquity, injustice, irregular, irregularity, lack of uniformity, nature, negative properties, paternity, revision, transient life, unfairness), で�"ぼ�" (roughness, ruggedness), むら (erraticness, inconsistancy, irregularity, village), とつおう (roughness, ruggedness). (various references)

Korean		�"� . (various references)

Manx		neuchormid (disparity, inadequacy, inequality, patchiness), neuchiartys (error, inaccuracy, partiality), meechorrymid (imbalance), lieh-chiartys (imperfection, oddness, roughness), anchiartys (incorrectness, inequality, injustice). (various references)

Pig Latin		evennessunay

Portuguese		desnivelamento (depression). (various references)

Russian		неравномерность (irregularity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neujednačenost (unsteadiness). (various references)

Spanish		irregularidad superficial (roughness), desnivelación (difference of level), desnivel (bench, ramp, shoulder). (various references)

Swedish		ojämnhet (irregularity). (various references)

Turkish		yamukluk (skew, warp), eğrilik (camber, cast, crookedness, curvature, deviousness, obliqueness, skew, slant, tortuosity, warp, wryness), eşitsizlik (disparity, imparity, inequality). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính hay thay đổi (changeability, fickleness, flightiness, humoursomeness, inconstancy, mutability, vagary, variability, variableness, volatility, waywardness, whimsicality, whimsicalness), tình trạng không phẳng, tình trạng gập gềnh tính thất thường, tình trạng g�" ghề. (various references)

Welsh		anwastadrwydd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	iniquitas, iniquitate, iniquitatem, iniquitates, iniquitati, iniquitatibus, iniquitatis, iniquitatium, iniquitatum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unevenness": unevennesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unevenness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unevennesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-n-n-s-s-u-v"
	-2 letters: evenness.
	-4 letters: ensues, sevens, uneven, unseen, venues.
	-5 letters: ensue, evens, nenes, neves, nevus, sense, seven, sunns, venue.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-n-n-s-s-u-v"
	+2 letters: unevennesses.
	+4 letters: uneventfulness.
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