'Regulation' definitions:
Definition of 'regulation'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Prescribed by or according to regulation; "regulation army equipment"
noun
An authoritative rule [syn: regulation, ordinance]
noun
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, regulation]
noun
The state of being controlled or governed
noun
(embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
noun
The act of bringing to uniformity; making regular [syn: regulation, regularization, regularisation]
noun
The act of controlling or directing according to rule; "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians" [syn: regulation, regulating]
Definition of 'Regulation'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Law; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See Law. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'regulation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Procrustean law,
- 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
Words containing 'Regulation'
- Regulable,
- Regulate,
- Regulated,
- Regulating,
- Regulative,
- Regulator,
- Regulize,
- Feed regulator,
- Regulation sword,
- Sumptuary regulations,
- To regulate a clock,
- To regulate a watch,
- growth regulator,
- regulation time,
- regulator gene,
- voltage regulator,
- Self-regulated,
- Self-regulative,
- self-regulating,
- well-regulated,
- cystic fibrosis transport regulator