regulation

• Regulation or regulation can be:

  in general: controlled intervention, adjustment, guidance
  in biology: a set of physiological processes maintaining the constancy of the organism's internal environment (temperature, pressure, water, etc.), see regulation (biology)
  in engineering: maintaining the measured values of a certain quantity according to given conditions, see regulation (engineering)
  in cybernetics: maintaining a certain quantity at a value approximately constant or changing according to a given program, see regulation (cybernetics)
  in economics: guidance of the economic activity of the private sector by the state (eg price regulation), see regulation (economics)
  in construction: construction modifications of watercourses and their banks, see regulation of watercourses
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