REGULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regulation mean? 

• REGULATION (noun)
  The noun REGULATION has 6 senses:

1. an authoritative rule

2. a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

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

6. the act of controlling or directing according to rule

  Familiarity information: REGULATION used as a noun is common.

• REGULATION (adjective)
  The adjective REGULATION has 1 sense:

1. prescribed by or according to regulation

  Familiarity information: REGULATION used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An authoritative rule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ordinance; regulation

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 2

Meaning:

A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

regulation; rule

Context example:

short haircuts were the regulation

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 3

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)

Sense 4

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 5

Meaning:

The act of bringing to uniformity; making regular

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

regularisation; regularization; regulation

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 6

Meaning:

The act of controlling or directing according to rule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

regulating; regulation

Context example:

fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians

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)

• REGULATION (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prescribed by or according to regulation

Context example:

regulation army equipment

Similar:

standard (conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind)

 Context examples 

The training programme has been developed by researchers from the UGR, and consists of exercises based on types of activities that stimulate the brain areas responsible for the regulation and control of attention.

(Study reveals attention training improves intelligence and brain function of children, University of Granada)

Exposure to ATCV-1 was associated with significant changes in the regulation of over 1,000 genes.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

This regulation is thought to be critical for certain types of learning and memory, and in amplifying signals in neurons.

(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)

This allele, which encodes alpha-1A adrenergic receptor protein, is involved in the regulation of smooth muscle contraction, cellular growth and proliferation.

(ADRA1A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes alpha-1B adrenergic receptor protein, plays a role in the regulation of cellular growth and proliferation.

(ADRA1B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings suggest that a healthy microbiome is necessary for appropriate regulation of miRNAs in these brain regions.

(New Light on Link between Gut Bacteria, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

SETD1A plays a key role in epigenomic regulation – the switching on-and-off of genes in response to experience – a molecular process widespread in the brain.

(Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice, National Institutes of Health)

This gene plays a role in the regulation of prostate cell growth.

(ACPP Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The REACH regulation, the one on food complements...

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

They found that the general principles of gene regulation are conserved between species.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)