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# unevenness

«unevenness» in Mova's school dictionary: **the state of not being flat, smooth or level, like bumps…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (unevenness — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unevenness is the state of not being flat, smooth or level, like bumps on a road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/#m1)

2) Unevenness is also the state of not being equal or regular, like uneven sharing or uneven quality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and DT: the unevenness of a surface affects friction and how things roll. In maths and fairness talk: unevenness in groups or shares. In everyday talk: unevenness in someone's work means it is good in parts and weak in parts.

### examples

- The unevenness of the path made me trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/#x1)
- We sanded the wood to remove the unevenness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/#x2)
- The teacher noticed the unevenness of the teams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/#x3)
- The unevenness of the pavement is dangerous for prams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/#x4)
- There was some unevenness in her handwriting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/#x5)
- Unevenness in the floor made the marble roll to one corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. From «uneven» + «-ness»; note «nn». In maths, an uneven number usually means an odd number, but «unevenness» is not used about odd numbers.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unevenness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unevenness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.