adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to regulation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
regulatory
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/
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UK: /ˌɹɛɡ.jʊˈleɪ.tə.ri/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.ləˌtɔ.ɹi/
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CMU ARPABET: R EH1 G Y AH0 L AH0 T AO2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
restricting according to rules or principles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a regulatory gene
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: regulative
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: регулиращ (regulirašt) — of or pertaining to regulation
- Catalan: regulador — of or pertaining to regulation
- Finnish: säätelevä — of or pertaining to regulation
- Finnish: regulatiivinen — of or pertaining to regulation
- Finnish: sääntely- — of or pertaining to regulation
- French: régulateur — of or pertaining to regulation
- French: régulatoire — of or pertaining to regulation
- French: réglementaire — of or pertaining to regulation
- German: regulativ — of or pertaining to regulation
- German: regulatorisch — of or pertaining to regulation
- Hebrew: מפקח (mefakeakh) — of or pertaining to regulation
- Hebrew: מנחה (mankheh) — of or pertaining to regulation
- Hungarian: szabályozási — of or pertaining to regulation
- Portuguese: regulatório — of or pertaining to regulation
- Romanian: regulator — of or pertaining to regulation
- Romanian: reglor — of or pertaining to regulation
- Romanian: moderator — of or pertaining to regulation
- Spanish: regulatorio — of or pertaining to regulation
- Spanish: regulador — of or pertaining to regulation
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