regulation

The act of regulating or the state of being regulated.

A principle, rule, or law designed to control or govern conduct.

A governmental order having the force of law.

The capacity of an embryo to continue normal development following injury to or alteration of a structure.

The standard playing period for a timed game, prior to overtime or a shootout.

To bring under regulations; cause to conform to rules.

In biology, readjustment which restores the completeness of the whole in a part that has been removed from the body of an organism or in an organism that has lost part of its body.

The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated or reduced to order.

A rule or order prescribed by a superior or competent authority as to the actions of those under its control; a governing direction; precept; law: as, police regulations; more specifically, a rule prescribed by a municipality, corporation, or society for the conduct of third persons dealing with it, as distinguished from

bylaw, a term which is generally used rather with reference to the standing rules governing its own internal organization and the conduct of its officers and members, and