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 managing something |
a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | the act of setting and holding a course |
something regarded as a normative example | a general course along which something has a tendency to develop |
a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | the concentration of attention or energy on something |
a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action |
(mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something |
prescribed guide for conduct or action | a message describing how something is to be done |
(linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice | a line leading to a place or point |
directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted | the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves |
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 | |