Regime

1. (n.) The government currently in power; a mode or system of rule, or of the prevailing social system.

2. (n.) 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 regime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.

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