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REGULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of controlling or directing according to rule
Example:
fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("regulation" is a kind of...):
control (the activity of managing or exerting control over something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regulation"):
devaluation (an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries)
gun control (efforts to regulate or control sales of guns)
indexation (a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation)
timing (the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics))
limitation; restriction (an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation))
Derivation:
regulate (shape or influence; give direction to)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
Synonyms:
regularisation; regularization; regulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("regulation" is a kind of...):
control (the activity of managing or exerting control over something)
Derivation:
regulate (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
Example:
short haircuts were the regulation
Synonyms:
regulation; rule
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("regulation" is a kind of...):
concept; conception; construct (an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regulation"):
limitation; restriction (a principle that limits the extent of something)
guideline; guidepost; rule of thumb (a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior)
cy pres; cy pres doctrine; rule of cy pres (a rule that when literal compliance is impossible the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as nearly as possible)
working principle; working rule (a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done)
Derivation:
regulate (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An authoritative rule
Synonyms:
ordinance; regulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("regulation" is a kind of...):
prescript; rule (prescribed guide for conduct or action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regulation"):
game law (a regulation intended to manage or preserve game animals)
age limit (regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position)
assize (the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale)
speed limit (regulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given road)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("regulation" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Domain category:
embryology (the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The state of being controlled or governed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("regulation" is a kind of...):
ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; control; dominance (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prescribed by or according to regulation
Example:
regulation army equipment
Classified under:
Similar:
standard (conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind)
Context examples:
This allele, which encodes adenosine A2a receptor protein, is involved in the regulation of adenylyl cyclase.
(ADORA2A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Balance is key to many physiological functions and it is especially true in the production and regulation of proteins.
(New Pathway for Handling Stress Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This allele, which encodes ankyrin repeat and BTB/POZ domain-containing protein 2, may be involved in the regulation of hepatocyte growth.
(ABTB2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes activin receptor type-1 protein, is involved in transcriptional regulation and signal transduction.
(ACVR1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein plays a role in both transcriptional regulation and signal transduction.
(Achaete-Scute Homolog 1, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein plays a role in protein phosphorylation, signal transduction, cell cycle regulation and apoptosis.
(Activin Receptor Type-1B, NCI Thesaurus)
But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
This gene plays a role in the regulation of protein cleavage.
(ADAM10 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
They discovered a problem in the processing of a small protein, ubiquitin, which is critical to the regulation of many other proteins in the body, including immune molecules.
(Researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease, NIH)
This allele, which encodes disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 8, plays a role in the regulation of proteolysis.
(ADAM8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
