regulation
(adjective) prescribed by or according to regulation; “regulation army equipment”
regulation, regulating
(noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule; “fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians”
regulation, regularization, regularisation
(noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
rule, regulation
(noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; “it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast”; “short haircuts were the regulation”
regulation, ordinance
(noun) an authoritative rule
regulation
(noun) (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
regulation
(noun) the state of being controlled or governed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
regulation (countable and uncountable, plural regulations)
(uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
(countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
A type of law made by the executive branch of government, usually by virtue of a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
(European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
(genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
(medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
regulation (not comparable)
In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
• urogenital
Source: Wiktionary
Reg`u*la"tion (-l"shn), n.
1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay.
2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school. Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations.
Syn.
– Law; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See Law.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2024
(noun) a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep; “he took the redeye in order to get home the next morning”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
