regulationnoun/ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/

• 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 conduct of members of that organization.

  • Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
  • The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
• 3

  lawA 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

  lawA 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.

  • Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 (S.R. & O. 1939/927) authorized the British government to intern suspected spies and collaborators during World War II.
  • (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only, subject to paragraph (3). (3) This regulation and regulation 2(h) and (v)(i) and (ii) extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• 5

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

• 6

  biologygeneticsmedicineMechanism controlling DNA transcription.

• 7

  medicinesciencesPhysiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.

regulationadj/ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/

• 1

  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."