regulation

Definitions

• (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
• (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
• A type of law made by the executive branch of government, usually by virtue of a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
• (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
• (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
• (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.