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Part of watch mechanism worked out larger
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regulator
Alternative clues for the word regulator
- One telling stories about Grand Union's first governor
- A control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
- A official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
- Overseer of rules soldier must keep to
- Turned up list by gun controller
- Controlling device
- Scuba device
Word definitions for regulator in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regulator \Reg"u*la`tor\ (-l?`t?r), n. One who, or that which, regulates. (Mach.) A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc. a official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest a control that maintains a steady speed in ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE antitrust ▪ The potential concentration of those activities might also prompt antitrust regulators to give any merger close scrutiny, Threlfall said. federal ▪ Four days after he opened, federal regulators demanded ...
Usage examples of regulator.
And while, theoretically, Silver-Gray protocol forbade the use of emotion-control programs, Phaethon tended to use some small glandular and parasympathetic regulators.
Talley, especially days like today, when his mouth ached from biting on a regulator mouthpiece, when he was frozen like a Popsicle and whipped to the point of coma .
Torres has just informed me that an EPS submaster flow regulator will be needed to restore the phasers.
He fed the underdrives a warm-up jolt, held one hand on the thrust regulator as he checked the gun turrets, finally switched on the viewscreens.
Grabbing ahold of the back of his hair, she kept his head firmly in place and jammed the breathing regulator into his mouth, He was forced to breathe.
Regulator sentiment still ran high in the backcountry, even though the main leaders of the movement, such as Hermon Husband and James Hunter, had left the colony.
Of course, Doisy-Dyan was a real tropic hellhole with a huge underclass, where constant killing by Liberators and Regulators kept a high level of tension in the hot, humid air.
This reflex action is a special function of the spinal cord, and serves as a monitor to, and regulator of the organs of nutrition and circulation, by placing them, ordinarily, beyond the control of conscious volition.
Life-root exerts a peculiar influence upon the female reproductive organs, and for this reason has received the name of Female Regulator It is very efficacious in promoting the menstrual flow, and is a valuable agent in the treatment of uterine diseases.
A chemical regulator related to thyroglobulin was no longer suppressed.
He had learned how to strip therm pumps and shield regulators off Hutt floaters while the local crimelords were lounging in the Corellian bath houses, making deals with their interstellar counterparts.
Similarly, the first gengineers and their regulators could not have foreseen the bots and their domination of the menial labor market.
Regulator counties seem to have participated as patriots in the Revolutionary War.
After hanging till life was extinct, the bodies were cut down, the mealsacks pulled off their faces, and the Regulators formal two parallel lines, through which all the prisoners passed and took a look at the bodies.
To us of the Regulators it showed that the Raiders had penetrated our designs, and were prepared for them.