evenness

1 a quality of uniformity and lack of variation [syn: invariability] [ant: unevenness, unevenness]

2 the quality of being balanced [ant: unevenness]

English

Noun

1. The quality of being even.

General

Even may refer to:

• Even, a Scandinavian male personal name (coincidentally, Odd is also a common Norwegian name).
• Even (people), an ethnic group from Siberia and Russian Far East
  • Even language, a language spoken by the Evens
• Even Balance Inc., a software producer based in Spring, Texas (USA).
• Even-weave, any woven textile where the warp and weft threads are of the same size
• Even Ha'ezer, a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim
• Even HaEzel, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer's commentary on Mishneh Torah
• Even-Shoshan concordance (1977), a New Concordance of the Bible's Old Testament Hebrew text by Abraham Even-Shoshan
• Odd and Even, a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards

Science and technology

• In mathematics, the term even is used in several senses related to odd:
  • even and odd numbers -- even if divisible by 2
  • even and odd functions -- even if f(x) = f(-x)
  • even and odd permutations -- even if composed of an even number of transpositions
  • Singly even number, an integer divisible by 2 but not divisible by 4
• Even code, if the Hamming weight of all of a binary code's codewords is even
• Even-odd rule, an algorithm implemented in the PostScript language
• Even-toed ungulate, whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes - mammal order Artiodactyla

English expressions

• Don't even think about it!, a phrase commonly used when a person denies another person something
• Even money, describes a wagering proposition with even odds
• "Not even wrong", phrase often used to describe pseudoscience

Entertainment

• Even, Dark-Hard-Rock band from Italy (website)
• Even (band), an Australian alternative rock band
• Even Akamaru is jealous of its super tracking power! Search for the phantom Faint Smell Bug, episode 148 of the anime series Naruto
• Even As We Speak, indie band from Sydney, Australia
• Even Better Than the Real Thing, 2nd song from U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, 1976 novel by Tom Robbins
  • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film), 1993 film based on the novel
• Even Dozen Jug Band, founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman and Peter Siegel in New York
• Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen), 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog
• Even Flow (1991), a song by the band Pearl Jam
• Even God Can't Change the Past, Charlotte Church's third single on her 2005 album Tissues and Issues
• Even Heaven Cries, a pop ballad on Monrose's debut studio album Temptation (2006)
• Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend, 1993 song by the punk band The Mr. T Experience
• Even If and Especially When, 1987 album by Screaming Trees
• Even if I Die, I Won't Kick You! Sanji's Manly Chivalry, 287th episode of the anime adaptation of the manga One Piece
• Even If You Don't, a single released by the band Ween in 2000
• Even in Blackouts (EiB), an acoustic pop-punk band from Chicago, Illinois
• Even in Darkness, collaborative debut LP by the Dungeon Family
• Even in His Youth, a song by the American rock band, Nirvana
• Even in the Quietest Moments (1977), 5th album by progressive rock band Supertramp
• Even It Up, a song recorded by the rock band Heart, released in 1980\
• Even My Sure Things Fall Through, 2001 EP by Arizona band Calexico
• Even Now, the sixth studio album by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow
• Even Serpents Shine, 1979 album produced by Alan Mair and Peter Perrett
• Even Song, disambiguation page
• Even Stevens (2000-2003), a comedy television program which originally aired on Disney Channel
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  • The Even Stevens Movie, 2003 American family comedy motion picture that debuted on the Disney Channel
• Even the Losers, 1979 song by American rock band Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
• Even the Queen, a short story by Connie Willis
• Even Worse, the fifth album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1988
• Getting Even, a 1993 rock album released by Greg Ginn on Cruz Records
• Getting Even with Dad, 1994 comedy film starring Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson
• Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, a 1941 Universal Pictures comedy film starring W.C. Fields
• Sieges Even, progressive metal band from Southern Germany
• The Even Chance, a TV adaption of the exploits of Horatio Hornblower, first related by C.S. Forester
• You're Gettin' Even While I'm Gettin' Odd (1984), 14th and final album by American rock band J. Geils Band

People

• Abraham Even-Shoshan (1906-1984), Russian-Israeli Hebrew linguist and lexicographer
• Even Wetten (born 1982), Norwegian speed-skater
• Maya Even (born 1958), Canadian born British based University lecturer, journalist and television presenter
• Nahshon Even-Chaim (aka Phoenix )(born 1971), first major computer hacker convicted in Australia
• Pierre Even (born 1946), Luxembourgian composer
• Shimon Even (1935-2004), Israeli computer science researcher
• Uzi Even (born 1940), Israeli professor of chemistry as well as a politician

Places

• Even-Yehuda, an Israeli village in the Sharon region of Netanya
• Even Menahem, an Israeli cooperative agricultural community (moshav) in Western Galilee
• Even Sapir, an Israeli cooperative agricultural community (moshav) near Jerusalem

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