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Régis Debray
Régis Debray (born 1940), French philosopher and writer, also known for Revolution in the Revolution? and as founder of mediology. ENS-trained, Guevara companion jailed in Bolivia, Mitterrand adviser 1981–85, Goncourt member 2011–15.
Regis High School (New York City)
Regis High School, 55 East 84th Street, Manhattan: tuition-free Jesuit college-prep school for Catholic boys, founded 1914 by anonymous donor Julia Grant, first free-standing Jesuit high school in the US.
Regis University
Regis University is a private Jesuit Catholic university in Denver, Colorado, founded in 1877 and the only Jesuit institution of higher learning in the Rocky Mountains.
Register
In linguistics, register is a variety of language used in a particular communicative setting, a concept first named by T. B. Reid in 1956 and studied through corpus-based analysis.
Register (sociolinguistics)
Register (sociolinguistics): a language variety defined by situational characteristics of use rather than by its users, distinct from dialect and genre. Central concepts include Halliday's field, tenor, and mode, and corpus-based multidimensional analysis of register variation.
Register analysis
Register analysis is a linguistic method for describing and comparing registers, the language varieties speakers and writers produce under particular situational conditions, from single features to co-occurring patterns.
Register rectification campaign
The register rectification campaign (却籍) was a Southern Qi campaign against falsified household registers, begun in 480, whose harsh enforcement provoked Tang Yuzhi's rising of 30,000 followers.
Registered Cossacks
Registered Cossacks (reiestrovi kozaky) were Ukrainian Cossacks accepted into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's state service and entered in official registers, first created in 1572 with 300 men.
Registration and publication of treaties under the United Nations Charter
Article 102 UN Charter system requiring Member States to register treaties and international agreements with the Secretariat and their publication in the United Nations Treaty Series; unregistered treaties cannot be invoked before UN organs.
Registration Convention
The Registration Convention (1975) is the UN treaty requiring launching States to register space objects in national registries and report five data items to the UN Secretary-General's public Register; 78 parties, with known gaps in deadlines, transfers, and data.
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals
REACH (Regulation EC 1907/2006) is the EU's main chemicals law, requiring registration of substances above 1 tonne per year with ECHA and providing evaluation, authorisation, and restriction processes; its planned revision was abandoned in 2026.
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID): US national certifying body for ASL interpreters, founded 1964 in Muncie, Indiana. Offers NIC (2005) and CDI (1998) certifications, NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct, EPS grievance system, CASLI testing since 2016, about 13,740 members.
Reglamento y aranceles reales para el comercio libre (1778)
The Reglamento y aranceles reales para el comercio libre was a 1778 regulation of Charles III of Spain that opened trade between Spanish and Spanish American ports.
Règlement Organique of Mount Lebanon
The Règlement Organique (النظام الأساسي لجبل لبنان) was the 1861 Ottoman statute, agreed with five European powers, that created the autonomous Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebanon.
Regnal name
A regnal name, or throne name, is the name a monarch or pope uses during a reign, not necessarily their birth name; covers regnal numbers, UK prerogative, papal renaming since c. 1000, and Chinese era-name usage.
Regor Pharmaceuticals
Regor Pharmaceuticals, publicly known as Regor Therapeutics Group, is a clinical-stage biotech company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its oral GLP-1 drug for obesity and diabetes.
Regor Therapeutics (齐鲁锐格医药)
Regor Therapeutics (齐鲁锐格医药) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in Shanghai in 2018 that develops drugs in oncology, immunology, and metabolism, selling its CDK inhibitor portfolio to Genentech for $850 million in 2024.
Regression (psychology)
Regression, or psychological regression, is a return to earlier, infantile patterns of thought or behavior; Freud described it as an unconscious defense mechanism under stress.
Regressive left
Regressive left: a political epithet coined by Maajid Nawaz in 2012 for liberals who tolerate illiberal ideologies, especially Islamism, in the name of multiculturalism; popularized in 2015 and contested as both critique and snarl word.
Regressive tax
A regressive tax is one whose effective rate falls as income rises, so poorer households pay a larger percentage of income, as with sales and excise taxes.
Regret theory
Regret theory is a decision theory in which choices depend on how outcomes compare with what the alternative action would have produced, proposed in 1982.
Regular and irregular verbs
Regular and irregular verbs: regular verbs form the past tense with -ed (talk/talked), irregular verbs use idiosyncratic forms (stick/stuck). English irregulars declined from 177 Old English verbs to 98 today, with frequency governing survival.
Regular grammar
A regular grammar is a formal grammar whose productions have at most one nonterminal, consistently on one side; such grammars generate exactly the regular languages.
Regular Palace Attendant
The Regular Palace Attendant (中常侍) was a Han dynasty palace post whose holders attended the emperor in his private quarters and became the main channel of eunuch power.
Regular script
Regular script (楷书, kǎishū) is the standard style of Chinese calligraphy, with straight strokes and roughly square character forms, developed from clerical script around the Later Han.
Regulating Act 1773
The Regulating Act 1773, also called the Regulating Act of 1773, was a British parliamentary act passed in 1773 to regulate the East India Company.
Regulation
Regulation is government's use of legal instruments to impose obligations on private actors, spanning economic, social, and administrative types, tested through cost-benefit analysis and OECD checklist principles.
Regulation D (SEC)
Regulation D is a set of SEC rules, adopted in March 1982, that exempts limited securities offerings, called private placements, from registration, centered on the accredited investor definition and Rules 504 and 506.
Regulation FD
Regulation FD, or Regulation Fair Disclosure, is a U.S. SEC rule adopted in 2000 requiring companies to publicly disclose material nonpublic information shared with analysts or favored investors.
Regulation of adult magazine distribution
The regulation of adult magazine distribution covers customs bans on obscene imports, display and shrink-wrapping rules, and voluntary retailer withdrawal, in the United States, Japan, and Singapore.