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regular-duty

regular-duty adjective: describing a tennis ball having a thinner felt woven more tightly around the ball's core, designed for softer court surfaces such as clay.

Adjective

regular-duty (not comparable)

  1. Describing a tennis ball having a thinner felt woven more tightly around the ball's core, designed for softer court surfaces such as clay.
    • Coordinate term: extra-duty
    • The men at the U.S. Open use what is known as an “extra-duty” ball, which means the felt on the outside of the ball is woven slightly more loosely than the “regular-duty” ball the women use. […] However, the regular-duty balls “play faster,” Collins said through a spokeswoman for the company.2022 September 6, Matthew Futterman, “The Great U.S. Open Ball Debate of 2022”, in The New York Times

Forms of regular-duty

alternative formregular duty

Questions about regular-duty

What does regular-duty mean?
Regular-duty means describing a tennis ball having a thinner felt woven more tightly around the ball's core, designed for softer court surfaces such as clay.
What part of speech is regular-duty?
Regular-duty is an adjective.

Words near regular-duty in the dictionary

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  2. regular tessellation
  3. regular tessellations
  4. regular verb
  5. regular verbs
  6. regular-duty
  7. Regulares
  8. regularisation
  9. regularisations
  10. regularise
  11. regularised

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