What is the meaning of compliance?

noun

• Acting according to certain accepted standards.
  • usage: "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
  • synonyms: conformity, conformation, abidance
• A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.
  • synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, obligingness, deference
• The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another.
  • synonyms: submission