the activity of managing or exerting control over something | the technical aspects of doing something |
(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function |
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes |
power to direct or determine | a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function |
discipline in personal and social activities | the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction |
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 | |