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evenly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈiːvənli/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English evenly, evenliche, from Old English efenlīċe (“evenly, alike, equally”), equivalent to even + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to form a flat surface.
   • Spread the icing evenly over the cake.
2. In a fair manner of distribution, giving the same amount or number to each; equally.
   • To avoid arguments, he divided the sweets evenly between his two children.
3. In a manner that leaves no remainder.
   • 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6.
4. In terms of or by means of even numbers.
   • The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones. 1998, Kay Almere Read, Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos, page 107:

Forms

Deriveds

evenly even · unevenly · evenly odd · evenly divisible

Translations (30)

sv jämnt (so as to make flat) · sv jämnt (in a manner that leaves no remainder) · pt justamente (in a fair manner) · fr équitablement (in a fair manner) · fr également (in a fair manner) · es equitativamente (in a fair manner) · pt imparcialmente (in a fair manner) · cs spravedlivě (in a fair manner) · bg точно (in a manner that leaves no remainder) · no likt (in a fair manner) · bg равно (so as to make flat) · fr uniformément (so as to make flat) · bg справедливо (in a fair manner) · da ligeligt (in a fair manner) · ru по́ровну (in a fair manner) · es divisible exacto (in a manner that leaves no remainder) · bg равномерно (so as to make flat) · izh rovnoist (in a fair manner) · da jævnt (so as to make flat) · nb jevnt (so as to make flat) · bg поравно (in a fair manner) · pt planamente (so as to make flat) · es uniformemente (so as to make flat) · ru на́цело (in a manner that leaves no remainder) · hu egyenletesen (so as to make flat) · ka თანაბრად (so as to make flat) · ru ро́вно (so as to make flat) · cs rovnoměrně (so as to make flat) · pt uniformemente (so as to make flat) · ru равноме́рно (so as to make flat)