Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Action; the realm of action.

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A wrongful or criminal deed.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.ix:

She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact , / Against that nation [...].

(obsolete) Feat.

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An honest observation.

Something actual as opposed to invented.

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Something which has become real.

Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.

An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of people.

Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.

Noun

(uncountable)   The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.

(countable)   A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17

, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}

* Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.

(European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.

(lb) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.

(lb) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.