the act of managing something | measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths |
the act of setting and holding a course | a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior |
a general course along which something has a tendency to develop | something regarded as a normative example |
the concentration of attention or energy on something | a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system |
something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct |
a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems |
a message describing how something is to be done | prescribed guide for conduct or action |
a line leading to a place or point | (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice |
the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves | directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted |
| any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order |
| dominance or power through legal authority |
| the duration of a monarch's or government's power |