Category:Regime

Ré`gime" (r`zhm"), n. Etym: [f. See regimen.]

1. Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or Of the prevailing social system. I dream. . . of the new régime which is to come. H. Kingsley.

2. (hydraul.)

Defn: the condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, As measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections In a given time, uniform régime being the condition when the flow is Equal and uniform at all the cross sections. The ancient régime, or Ancien régime etym: [f.], the former political and social system, as Distinguished from the modern; especially, the political and social System existing in france before the revolution of 1789.