Definition of Compliance

1. Noun. Acting according to certain accepted standards. "Their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"

Exact synonyms: Abidance, Conformation, Conformity
Generic synonyms: Cooperation
Specialized synonyms: Formality, Line, Honoring, Observance, Keeping
Derivative terms: Comply, Conform
Antonyms: Noncompliance, Nonconformity

2. Noun. A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.

3. Noun. The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another.
Exact synonyms: Submission
Generic synonyms: Group Action
Specialized synonyms: Obedience, Obeisance, Prostration
Derivative terms: Submit, Submit, Submit

Definition of Compliance

1. n. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.

Definition of Compliance

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Compliance

1. A physical quality of yielding to pressure or force without disruption, or an expression of the measure of the ability to do so, as an expression of the distensibility of an air- or fluid-filled organ, e.g., the lung (lung compliance) or the bladder, in terms of unit of volume change per unit of pressure change. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compliance

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complex instruction set computer
complex instruction set computing
complex ion
complex learning processes
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complex locus
complex medium
complex number
complex odontoma
complex partial seizure
complex precipitated epilepsy
complex quantity
complex sentence
compliance (current term)
compliance (current term)
compliances
compliance of bladder
compliance of heart
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compliancy
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complicacies
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complicated
complicatedly

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