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regulatory, a.|ˈrɛgjʊlətərɪ|
[f. regulate v. + -ory.]
1. Regulative.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 517 Some such code as I propose—some regulatory system for men to wrong their neighbours by. 1880W. E. Hall Internat. Law i. i. 15 With their definitive failure to establish a regulatory authority international relations tended to drift into chaos. 1977Whitaker's Almanack 1978 354/1, I have decided to use my regulatory powers to increase by 10 per cent. all the revenue duties charged on tobacco and alcoholic drinks.
2. Biol. Pertaining to, being, or involving regulation (sense 1 b).
1902Archiv für Entwicklungsmech. der Organismen XV. 217 Morgan has proposed the name ‘morphallaxis’ for certain regulatory form-changes occurring in..lower animals, in consequence of which a piece gradually assumes more or less exactly the proportions of the whole organism. 1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 302 This regulatory function of higher mechanisms is seen also in the domain of pure physiology. Ibid. 280 This period of non-regulation not only succeeds one regulatory phase, but precedes another. 1948New Biol. V. 122 Many animals (especially those which undergo spiral cleavage) have little trace of profound regulatory power from the fertilised egg onwards. 1964New Perspectives in Biol. IV. 246 A considerable amount is known about regulatory mechanisms in bacteria. Ibid. 259 The regulatory mechanisms that control cell differentiation in multi-cellular organisms may, in the not too distant future, cease to be one of the main unknown areas in biology. |