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 | a customary way of operation or behavior |
a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | a decorative or artistic work |
something regarded as a normative example | a perceptual structure |
a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | a model considered worthy of imitation |
a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | something intended as a guide for making something else |
(mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | something regarded as a normative example |
prescribed guide for conduct or action | graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle |
(linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport |
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 | |