- compliance
- The act of following a medical regimen or schedule correctly and consistently, including taking medicines or following a diet.
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compliance — com‧pli‧ance [kəmˈplaɪəns] noun [uncountable] LAW when someone obeys a law or rule or keeps an agreement: • The Coast Guard can board any ship and check its compliance with safety rules. • The refinery is operating safely and in compliance with… … Financial and business terms
compliance — com·pli·ance /kəm plī əns/ n 1: an act or process of complying with a demand or recommendation 2: observance of official requirements Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
Compliance — can mean: In mechanical science, the inverse of stiffness Compliance (medicine), a patient s (or doctor s) adherence to a recommended course of treatment Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original … Wikipedia
compliance — ● compliance nom féminin Compliance pulmonaire, élasticité des poumons, dont la mesure est utilisée dans le bilan des maladies respiratoires. ● compliance (expressions) nom féminin Compliance pulmonaire, élasticité des poumons, dont la mesure est … Encyclopédie Universelle
compliance — compliance, types of compliance The organizational sociologist Amitai Etzioni distinguished three means by which organizations (see organization theory ) could secure compliance from their members essentially three types of power by which… … Dictionary of sociology
Compliance — Com*pli ance, n. [See {Comply}.] 1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. [1913 Webster] What compliances will remove dissension? Swift. [1913 Webster] Ready compliance with the wishes of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
compliance — [kəm plī′əns] n. 1. a complying with or giving in to a request, wish, or demand; acquiescence 2. a tendency to give in readily to others: Also compliancy in compliance with in accordance with … English World dictionary
compliance — 1640s, from COMPLY (Cf. comply) + ANCE (Cf. ance). Related: Compliancy; compliant … Etymology dictionary
compliance — acquiescence, resignation (see under COMPLIANT) Analogous words: obedience, docility, amenableness, tractableness (see corresponding adjectives at OBEDIENT): submitting or submission, yielding, deferring or deference (see corresponding verbs at… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
compliance — Compliance Податливость Величина, обратная модулю упругости при растяжении (D), модулю сдвига (G) или модулю всестороннего сжатия (B); эти величины связаны следующим соотношением: D=G/3+B/9 … Толковый англо-русский словарь по нанотехнологии. - М.
compliance — [n] agreement acquiescence, amenability, assent, complaisance, concession, concurrence, conformity, consent, deference, docility, obedience, observance, passivity, resignation, submission, submissiveness, tractability, yielding; concepts 411,684… … New thesaurus
