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regulation

noun
/ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/

Etymology

From regulate + -ion.

  1. borrowed from regulatus
  2. suffixed as regulation — “regulate + ion”

Definitions

  1. The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.

  2. A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the…

    A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.

    • Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.

  3. A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a…

    A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention…

      A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.

    2. Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.

    3. Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.

    4. In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.

      • It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt.
      • "The hat is regulation as well, I assume."
      • It is the responsibility of every legionare to be sure that he is regulation height as well.

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Derived

antiregulation, autoregulation, baroregulation, bioregulation, chemoregulation, cisregulation, COLREGS, counterregulation, down-regulation, downregulation, dysregulation, epiregulation, glucoregulation, glycoregulation, hemoregulation, hydroregulation, hyperregulation, hyporegulation, interregulation, liporegulation, macroregulation, mechanoregulation, metalloregulation, midnight regulation, misregulation, morphoregulation, myoregulation, neuroimmune regulation, neuroregulation, nonregulation, osmoregulation, overregulation, oxyregulation, phosphoregulation, photoregulation, physioregulation, postregulation, preregulation, regulational, regulationist · +13 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at regulation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01regulation02organization03rules04rule05ruling06law07regulations

A definitional loop anchored at regulation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at regulation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA