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English

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to a regulation or rules.
  2. : The regulation rules of baseball.


Noun

  1. A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
  2. : Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.


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fa:regulation fr:regulation io:regulation id:regulation it:regulation hu:regulation pl:regulation ru:regulation simple:regulation ta:regulation te:regulation vi:regulation tr:regulation zh:regulation

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Regulation \Reg`u*la"tion\ (-l?"sh?n), n.
1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
[1913 Webster]

The temper and regulation of our own minds.
--Macaulay.
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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.
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Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword,
cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by
the official regulations.
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Syn: Law; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See
Law.
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WordNet regulation
adj : prescribed by or according to regulation; "regulation army
equipment"
n 1: an authoritative rule [syn: ordinance]
2: a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior;
"it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short
haircuts were the regulation" [syn: rule]
3: the state of being controlled or governed
4: (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue
normal development after its structure has been somehow
damaged or altered
5: the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular [syn: regularization,
regularisation]
6: the act of controlling or directing according to rule;
"fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians" [syn:
regulating]
Moby Dictionary
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 rule


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