the activity of managing or exerting control over something | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) |
(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | dominance through threat of punishment and violence |
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | |
power to direct or determine | |
discipline in personal and social activities | |
great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | |
a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | |
the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | |
a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | |
a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | |
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | |