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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun regulation has 6 senses
- regulation(n = noun.communication) ordinance - an authoritative rule; Array has particulars: game law, age limit, assize, speed limit
- regulation(n = noun.cognition) rule - a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation" is a kind of concept, conception, construct
- regulation(n = noun.state) Array - the state of being controlled or governed; Array is a kind of ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance
- regulation(n = noun.process) Array - (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered; Array is a kind of biological process, organic process
- regulation(n = noun.act) regularisation, regularization - the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular; Array is a kind of control
- regulation(n = noun.act) regulating - the act of controlling or directing according to rule; "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians" is a kind of control
is a kind of prescript, rule
has particulars: limitation, restriction, guideline, guidepost, rule of thumb, cy pres, cy pres doctrine, rule of cy pres, working principle, working rule
Derived form verb regulate2
Derived form verb regulate2
has particulars: devaluation, gun control, indexation, timing, limitation, restriction
Derived form verb regulate3
Adjective regulation has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
regulation, n.
- The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. [1913 Webster]"The temper and regulation of our own minds." [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
regulation, n.
1 the act or an instance of regulating; the process of being regulated.
2 a prescribed rule; an authoritative direction.
3 (attrib.) a in accordance with regulations; of the correct type etc. (the regulation speed; a regulation tie). b colloq. usual (the regulation soup).
1 the act or an instance of regulating; the process of being regulated.
2 a prescribed rule; an authoritative direction.
3 (attrib.) a in accordance with regulations; of the correct type etc. (the regulation speed; a regulation tie). b colloq. usual (the regulation soup).
THESAURUS
regulation
Procrustean law, accepted, accommodation, accustomed, act, adaptation, adjustment, administration, assimilation, attunement, authoritative, authority, average, balance, balancing, bill, binding, bylaw, canon, canonical, charting, civil government, coaptation, code, codification, command, commandment, common, commonplace, conduct, conformable, consuetudinary, control, convention, conventional, coordination, criterion, current, customary, decree, decretum, dictate, dictated, dictation, dictum, didactic, direction, directive, discipline, dispensation, disposition, edict, empery, empire, enactment, established, everyday, familiar, fiat, fixing, form, form of government, formality, formula, formulary, general orders, general principle, generally accepted, golden rule, governance, government, guidance, guideline, guiding principle, habitual, handling, hard and fast, harmonization, household, husbandry, imperative, institution, instruction, instructive, integration, jus, law, law of nature, lead, leading, legislation, lex, maintenance, management, managery, managing, mandatory, manipulation, maxim, measure, methodization, mitzvah, modification, modulation, moral, norm, norma, normal, normalization, normative, obtaining, official, order, order of nature, ordering, ordinance, ordinary, ordination, ordonnance, organization, oversight, pilotage, planning, political organization, polity, popular, precept, preceptive, predominating, prescribed, prescribed form, prescript, prescription, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, principium, principle, proclamation, pronouncement, rationalization, received, reconcilement, reconciliation, regime, regimen, regnancy, regular, regularization, reign, required, routinization, rubric, rule, ruling, running, set, set form, setting, settled principle, sovereignty, squaring, standard, standing order, statute, statutory, steerage, steering, stock, supervision, sway, synchronization, system of government, systematization, tenet, the conn, the helm, the wheel, time-honored, timing, traditional, typical, ukase, universal, universal law, usual, vernacular, widespread, wonted, working principle, working ruleROGET THESAURUS
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Direction
N direction, management, managery, government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance, bossism, legislature, steerage, pilotage, reins, reins of government, helm, rudder, needle, compass, guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star, cynosure, supervision, superintendence, surveillance, oversight, eye of the master, control, charge, board of control, command, premiership, senatorship, director, chair, portfolio, statesmanship, statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft, ministry, ministration, administration, stewardship, proctorship, agency, director, directing, hegemonic, at the helm, at the head of, direction, bearing, course, vector, set, drift, tenor, tendency, incidence, bending, trending, dip, tack, aim, collimation, steering steerage, point of the compass, cardinal points, North East, South, West, N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation, line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march, alignment, allignment, air line, beeline, straight shoot, directed, directed towards, pointing towards, bound for, aligned, with alligned with, direct, straight, undeviating, unswerving, straightforward, North, Northern, Northerly, towards, on the road, on the high road to, en avant, versus, to, hither, thither, whither, directly, straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow, point blank, in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with, in a line with, full tilt at, as the crow flies, before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind, windwards, in the wind's eye, through, via, by way of, in all directions, in all manner of ways, quaquaversum, from the four winds, the shortest distance between two points is a stra.Precept
N precept, direction, instruction, charge, prescript, prescription, recipe, receipt, golden rule, maxim, rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris, lex scripta, act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation, form, formula, formulary, technicality, canon law, norm, order.Legality
N legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, legislature, law, code, corpus juris, constitution, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule, canon, ordinance, institution, regulation, bylaw, byelaw, decree, ordonnance, standing order, plebiscite, legal process, form, formula, formality, rite, arm of the law, habeas corpus, fieri facias, jurisprudence, nomology, legislation, codification, equity, common law, lex, lex nonscripta, law of nations, droit des gens, international law, jus gentium, jus civile, civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law, lex mercatoria, constitutionalism, constitutionality, justice, court, tribunal, judge, lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, legal, legitimate, according to law, vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized, lawful, statutable, statutory, legislatorial, legislative, regulatory, regulated, legally, in the eye of the law, de jure, ignorantia legis neminem excusat, ignorance of the law is no excuse, where law ends tyranny begins.
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