…one of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct or procedure within a particular area of activity…
…in a regular manner according to a particular set of rules…
…(in the UK) a prison regulation whereby prisoners, typically sex offenders, can be isolated or segregated for their own protection…
…a regulation or directive that prohibits public discussion of a particular matter, in particular…
…the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens, in particular as advocated for Ireland 1870–1914…
…control of a political situation by those outside the conventional or lawful realm, typically involving violence and intimidation…
…the regulations or standards of behaviour that should be followed in a particular job, organization, or sphere…
…a system of government in which a province is controlled by a central government…
…a basic principle which should always be followed to ensure success in general or in a particular activity…
…a rule relating the possible numbers of phases, constituents, and degrees of freedom in a chemical system…
…a plumb line attached to a board, used by builders and surveyors…
…a ruler with a sliding central strip, marked with logarithmic scales and used for making rapid calculations, especially multiplication and division…
…a system of government of one nation by another in which the governed people retain certain administrative, legal, and other powers…
…the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power…
…exclude (or include) something as a possibility…
…the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws…
…a rule which describes whether particular quantum transitions in an atom or molecule are allowed or forbidden…
…an arithmetical rule for estimating the area under a curve where the values of an odd number of ordinates, including those at each end, are known…
…a method of estimating the area under a curve by dividing it into a series of strips, each of which is approximately a trapezium…
…follow official working rules and hours exactly in order to reduce output and efficiency, especially as a form of industrial action…
…a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial…
…a broadly accurate guide or principle, based on practice rather than theory…
…a method of finding a number in the same ratio to a given number as exists between two other given numbers…
…the policy of maintaining control over one’s subordinates or opponents by encouraging dissent between them, thereby preventing them from uniting in opposition…
…the rule that a pawn making a first move of two squares instead of one may nevertheless be immediately captured by an opposing pawn on the fifth rank…
…a rule that public records may be open to inspection after a lapse of fifty years. Superseded in the UK in 1968 by the thirty-year rule…
…a custom or law regulating the direction in which two vehicles (or riders or ships) should move to pass one another on meeting, or which should give way to the other, so as to avoid collision…
…a directive issued by a military authority specifying the circumstances and limitations under which forces will engage in combat with the enemy…
…a rule of the House of Commons allowing brief discussion of a motion to introduce a bill, each speech being limited to ten minutes…
…a rule that public records may be open to inspection after a lapse of thirty years…
…a mnemonic concerning the behaviour of a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field, according to which the directions of the magnetic field, the current, and the force exerted on the conductor are indicated respectively by the first finger, second finger, and thumb of the left hand when these are held out perpendicular to each other…
…a mnemonic concerning the behaviour of a conductor moving in a magnetic field, according to which the directions of the magnetic field, the induced current, and the motion of the conductor are indicated respectively by the first finger, second finger, and thumb of the right hand when these are held out perpendicular to each other…
…the fact that some cases do not follow a rule proves that the rule applies in all other cases…
…a rule governing the content, form, or application of other rules…
