Noun

• S: (n) regulation, ordinance (an authoritative rule)
• S: (n) rule, regulation (a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior) "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation"
• S: (n) regulation (the state of being controlled or governed)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another) "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
• S: (n) condition, status (a state at a particular time) "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
• S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• S: (n) regulation ((embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered)
• S: (n) regulation, regularization, regularisation (the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular)
• S: (n) regulation, regulating (the act of controlling or directing according to rule) "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians"

Adjective

• S: (adj) regulation (prescribed by or according to regulation) "regulation army equipment"