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A regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat
Answer for the clue "A regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat ", 10 letters:
thermostat
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Word definitions for thermostat in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
automatic instrument for regulating temperature, 1831, from thermo- + -stat .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat [syn: thermoregulator ] v. control the temperature with a thermostat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thermostat \Ther"mo*stat\, n. [Thermo- + Gr. ? to make to stand.] (Physics) A device which automatically regulates temperature, or provides a signal used by another device to regulate temperature. The temperature-sensitive signal may be electronic, as that ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A thermostat is a component which senses the temperature of a system so that the system's temperature is maintained near a desired setpoint . The thermostat does this by switching heating or cooling devices on or off, or regulating the flow of a heat transfer ...
Usage examples of thermostat.
T cells is starting a process which ends up with your hypothalamus turning up the thermostat.
It appears that as the thermostat tests the blood passing through for temperature so the appestat tests it for glucose content.
Alden speculated that Lily was obliged to wait for some late autumnal sunset to align itself exactly with the rusty croquet hoops atilt in the side yard before she could touch the thermostat.
Alf Brummel had a key to the church and was already there, switching on the lights and turning up the thermostat.
He switched on the low-intensity interior lighting, adjusted the thermostat to 20 degrees Celsius and activated the sensor array.
In addition to shutting off the water heater and resetting the thermostat, she included a cleanout of several cabinets that would fill the vanwagon.
Regular cleaning and repairs of the building were performed by a maintenance service, but the Dorritt brothers had been given the use of a small basement apartment in return for minor janitorial duties involving fuses and thermostats and cutoff valves.
Surely a simple thermostat made of a bimetallic strip will do the job as well.
So I got the Bug out, locked the doors and set the thermostats, and I set out.
The subtlety and sense of timing of a thermostat or a cardiac pacemaker, Pete decided -- that's what it takes to be a hunter -- a feeling for the rhythm of things and a power over them.
I'd moved the thermostat up to 70, but all it did was click off and on ineffectually.
Today, restricting ourselves to general purpose computers, and ignoring the ubiquitous special purpose machines that inhabit everything from thermostats to automobile fuel injection systems, several hundred million machines are in use around the world.
They saw the models of the automatic kneaders, the vitaminizers, the remote signal thermostats and timers and controls.
You can hang half a dozen different monitors off of it and play DOOM with someone in Australia while tracking communications satellites in orbit and controlling your house's lights and thermostats and streaming live video from your web-cam and surfing the Net and designing circuit boards on the other screens.
It is like the action of a thermostat which controls the oil furnace in the basement.