regulation
Rules from authority
Regulation is an official rule or directive issued by an authority to control how something is done.
Governments create regulations to govern industries, protect public safety, and enforce standards: environmental regulations, banking regulations.
The word also functions as an adjective meaning conforming to rules or of standard issue: regulation uniform, regulation size.
As a general concept, regulation refers to the act or process of controlling or supervising something: the regulation of blood sugar, temperature regulation.
Enacted written rule
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
bylaw · provision · edict · precept · injunction · prescription · canon · dictum
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- policyAdopted principle of action
administration · bureaucracy · agency · commission · watchdog · legislature · mandate · intervention
Faithful following of something
- conformityAdherence to norms
- auditFormal accounts examination
- certificationAttestation of qualification
- accreditationOfficial quality approval
inspection · verification · accountability · due diligence · legality · obligation · penalties · sanctions
Detailed technical requirement
- benchmarkStandard for comparison
- normAccepted behavioral standard
- parameterBoundary-setting factor
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
metric · baseline · gauge · template · reference · ISO · tolerance · threshold
Alteration to improve fit
- modulationVarying signals to transmit
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
restraint · throttling · limiting · metering · flow control · valve · thermostat · governor
Biological internal stability maintenance
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- equilibriumState of balance
- feedback loopSelf-modifying cyclical process
- hormoneBody's chemical messenger
insulin · glucose · metabolism · thermoregulation · osmoregulation · pH balance · enzyme · endocrine
statute
Enacted written rule
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
decree · bylaw · provision · edict · precept · injunction · prescription · canon · dictum · commandment
oversight
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
policy · administration · bureaucracy · agency · commission · watchdog · legislature · mandate · intervention · framework
adherence
Faithful following of something
- conformityAdherence to norms
- auditFormal accounts examination
- certificationAttestation of qualification
accreditation · inspection · verification · accountability · due diligence · legality · obligation · penalties · sanctions · violation
specification
Detailed technical requirement
calibration · metric · baseline · gauge · template · reference · ISO · tolerance · threshold · criterion
adjustment
Alteration to improve fit
- modulationVarying signals to transmit
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
coordination · restraint · throttling · limiting · metering · flow control · valve · thermostat · governor · feedback
homeostasis
Biological internal stability maintenance
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- equilibriumState of balance
- feedback loopSelf-modifying cyclical process
hormone · insulin · glucose · metabolism · thermoregulation · osmoregulation · pH balance · enzyme · endocrine · physiological
- Formal Structureshierarchy, bureaucracy, government, corporation, committee
- ruleslaw, guideline, bylaw, standard, norm
- rules & guidelinesstyle guide, manual, handbook, protocol, guidelines
- Rules & Regulationslaw, bylaw, decree, edict, order
- finance termsnet profit, gross profit, budget, credit, debt
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
regulationanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
lawlessness · chaos · disorder · license · misrule
regulationderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
liberalization · laissez-faire · decontrol · free market · nonintervention
regulationnonstandard
Departing from established norms
unofficial · irregular · nonconformity · arbitrariness · irregularity
- food safety regulationsRules protecting consumers from contamination
- park regulationsOfficial conduct requirements outdoors
- trade regulationsRules governing commercial exchange
- noise regulationsLaws controlling volume levels
- employment regulationsRules governing workplace conditions
- hospital regulationsOfficial healthcare facility rules
regulating, regulations, deregulation, regulative, deregulating, self-regulation, overregulation, self-regulating