evenly
/ˈiːvənli/
evenly adverb: so as to form a flat surface.
Adverb
evenly (comparative more evenly, superlative most evenly)
- So as to form a flat surface.
- Spread the icing evenly over the cake.
- 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.
- In a manner that leaves no remainder.
- 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6.
- 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
evenly meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
evenly in Tamil
- சமமாக
evenly in Urdu
- برابری سے, یکساں طور پر
evenly in Malayalam
- തുല്യമായി, കൃത്യമായി, പക്ഷപാതരഹിതമായി
Examples of evenly in a sentence
- The problem "given two numbers x and y, does x evenly divide y?" is a decision problem.
- I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.
- Numerous rounded nano-pores are evenly distributed over the entire surface of the sensillum (Fig. 5h).
Forms of evenly
| comparative | more evenly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most evenly |
Origin of evenly
From Middle English evenly, evenliche, from Old English efenlīċe (“evenly, alike, equally”), equivalent to even + -ly.
Words formed from evenly
- evenly divisible
- evenly even
- evenly odd
- unevenly
Questions about evenly
- What does evenly mean?
- Evenly means so as to form a flat surface.
- What is evenly in Tamil?
- Evenly in Tamil is சமமாக. See Evenly meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is evenly?
- Evenly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce evenly?
- Evenly is pronounced /ˈiːvənli/.
Words near evenly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: evenly (page history and authors); evenly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); evenly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); evenly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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