Usually means: Rules governing behavior or processes.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. regulation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. regulation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. regulation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. regulation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. regulation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Regulation, regulation: Wordnik
  7. regulation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. regulation: Wiktionary
  9. regulation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. regulation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. regulation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. regulation: Dictionary.com
  13. regulation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Regulation (Brussels), Regulation (European Union), Regulation (disambiguation), Regulation (law), Regulation (magazine), Regulation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Regulation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. regulation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. regulation: Rhymezone
  18. regulation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. regulation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. regulation: Free Dictionary
  21. regulation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. regulation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. regulation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. REGULATION: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. regulation: Legal dictionary
  7. regulation: Financial dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Regulation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. regulation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  4. regulation: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. regulation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. regulation: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Regulation: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
noun:  (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
noun:  (law, often in the plural) A 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.
noun:  (countable, in the singular) A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
noun:  (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
noun:  (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
noun:  (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
adjective:  In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.

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