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Rule, ruler, or ruling usually refers to standards for activities.

Rule, ruler, or ruling may refer to:

Guides for human activity

• Rule of thumb, a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation
• Moral, a rule or element of a moral code for guiding choices in human behavior
• Norm (sociology), an informal but widely accepted rule, concept, truth, definition, or qualification (social norms, legal norms, coding norms)
• Norm (philosophy), a kind of sentence or a reason to act, feel or believe
• Regulation of sport, rules for a sport

Law and government

• Ruler, see monarch, the person who rules a country
• Procedural law, a ruleset governing the application of laws to cases
  • A law, which may informally be called a "rule"
  • A court ruling, a decision by a court
• In the Federal government of the United States, a regulation mandated by Congress, but written or expanded upon by the Executive Branch
• Governance:
  • Military rule, governance by a military body
  • Monastic rule, a collection of precepts that guides the life of monks or nuns in a religious order where the superior holds the place of Christ

Science and technology

• Technical rules, see standardization, the process of developing and agreeing upon technical standards
• Ruler, a straight edge instrument that may also be used to measure distances
• Rule, a component of an astrolabe, circumferator or similar instrument
• Slide rule, an obsolete instrument for calculation
• Mathematics and logic
  • Golomb ruler, an imaginary ruler with no two marks the same distance
  • Perfect ruler, an imaginary ruler with marks defined by differences
  • Operator, a determinate rule (method) for performing a mathematical operation and obtaining a certain result
    • Unary operation
    • Binary operation
  • Rule of inference, a function from sets of formulae to formulae

Computers

• Rewrite rule, rules for replacing one item by another
• Production rule, a set of rules about behavior or forming something
• Heuristic, a quantized "rule" which shows a tendency or probability for producing a desired function
• RULE Project (Run Up-to-date Linux Everywhere), a project that aims to use up-to-date Linux software on old PCs
• Rule engine, a software system that helps managing business rules

Television, film, music, and books

• "Rule/Sparkle," a song by Ayumi Hamasaki
• "Rule (song)," a song by rapper Nas
• "Rules (album)," an album by the band The Whitest Boy Alive
• Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula, a 2003 Bollywood film
• The Rules, a bestselling self-help book
• Ja Rule, a hip hop artist
  • R.U.L.E., a 2005 greatest hits album by rapper Ja Rule
• "Rules (song)," a KMFDM song

Other uses

• Rulering (punishment), a form of a corporal punishment

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From Wikiversity

In social psychology, rules refer to behavioural guidelines for a specific group or setting. Rules can be explicit or implicit.

See also

• Norm (sociology)