regulate

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Escapements are the things that regulate the output of circular motion.

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Quick take

fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of regulate gathered in one view.

verb

fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"

verb

bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"

verb

shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for regulate.

verb

fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"

verb

bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"

See also: regularize, regularise, order, govern

verb

shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"

See also: determine, shape, mold, influence

verb

check the emission of (sound)

Example sentences

Escapements are the things that regulate the output of circular motion.

Cocaine, ecstacy, and LSD were all once unregulated and "legal".

Deregulate the industry, use auctions to allocate spectrum, etc.

Its part of a larger ideological debate about how to regulate the telecom industry.

Make regulators focus on enforcing real transparency, since they don't know how to regulate behavior.

It bypasses the laws that were designed to protect the most vulnerable, and it will take some time for new laws to catch up that can regulate operations like mechanical turk.

I love how it's not a problem with Bitcoin, it's a problem with the rest of the world not adapting to use Bitcoin fast enough!So basically, to be able to use Bitcoin, we need to develop a utopian society where the regulators are as smart as the people they're trying to regulate, the average person on the street is able to secure their computer against a financially motivated hacker, the global energy problems are solved and total privacy is achieved.

Here is one of those oh-so-productive HN threads where virtually everyone is competing to find either cleverer or more emphatic ways of agreeing with the same statement; in this case, it's "the government shouldn't regulate encryption", but it might just as well be "the government shouldn't be electronically strip searching people at airports".This phenomenon presents a manifold of problems, including:* Because we appear to be unable to move past the most immediately obvious point, we can't fit any other thoughts in our head, like, "maybe there is a real societal problem that needs to be addressed here" --- not by regulating encryption, but, for instance, perhaps by allocating funding and training differently.