EVENLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evenly mean? 

• EVENLY (adverb)
  The adverb EVENLY has 2 senses:

1. in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way

2. in a level and regular way

  Familiarity information: EVENLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way

Synonyms:

equally; evenly

Context example:

deal equally with rich and poor

Antonym:

unevenly (in an unequal or partial manner)

Pertainym:

even (equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a level and regular way

Antonym:

unevenly (in an uneven and irregular way)

Pertainym:

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))

 Context examples 

A naturally produced angular solid of definite form in which the ultimate units from which it is built up are systematically arranged; they are usually evenly spaced on a regular space lattice.

(Crystal Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A solid that consists of naturally produced angular solids composed of singular, repeating units that are systematically arranged in an evenly spaced lattice.

(Crystal Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

The tracer is absorbed evenly in areas of the lung where the blood flow is normal and these areas show up with the tracer distributed evenly.

(Lung Perfusion Scan, NCI Thesaurus)

Its nucleus is composed of very fine, evenly distributed chromatin with 2-5 nucleoli.

(Myeloblast, NCI Thesaurus)

The captain made us trim the boat, and we got her to lie a little more evenly.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Is the point of my mantle in the middle, and have I looped my dress evenly?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Atrioventricular septal defect in which the atrioventricular junction is shared evenly between the left ventricle and right ventricle.

(Complete Atrioventricular Canal Defect Balanced, NCI Thesaurus)

During this time, the cells grew to evenly cover the scaffolds.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

While it is possible that the freezing of a global subsurface ocean formed the fractures, this scenario is unlikely, as the locations of pit chains are not evenly dispersed across Ceres' surface.

(Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution, NASA)

A measurement of the Burr cells (erythrocytes characterized by the presence of multiple small, sharp projections evenly distributed across the cell surface) in a biological specimen.

(Crenated Cell Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)