Crossword clues for regulator
regulator
- A official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
- A control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
- Go off with a gun, returning for timepiece
- Overseer of rules soldier must keep to
- One telling stories about Grand Union's first governor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regulator \Reg"u*la`tor\ (-l?`t?r), n.
One who, or that which, regulates.
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(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 of the balance.
The governor of a steam engine.
A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.
A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.
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A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes. [U.S.]
A few stood neutral, or declared in favor of the Regulators.
--Bancroft.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, agent noun in Latin form from regulate. In English history, from 1680s; in American history, from 1767, applied to local posses that kept order (or disturbed it) in rural regions. As a mechanical device or clock used to set the time of other pieces, from 1758.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that controls or limits something. 2 A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law. 3 A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock. 4 (Genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
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 a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) [syn: governor]
Wikipedia
Regulator may refer to:
In automatic control, a regulator is a device which has the function of maintaining a designated characteristic. It performs the activity of managing or maintaining a range of values in a machine. The measurable property of a device is managed closely by specified conditions or an advance set value; or it can be a variable according to a predetermined arrangement scheme. It can be used generally to connote any set of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling items or objects.
Examples are a voltage regulator (which can be a transformer whose voltage ratio of transformation can be adjusted, or an electronic circuit that produces a defined voltage), a pressure regulator, such as a diving regulator, which maintains its output at a fixed pressure lower than its input, and a fuel regulator (which controls the supply of fuel).
Regulators can be designed to control anything from gases or fluids, to light or electricity. Speed can be regulated by electronic, mechanical, or electro-mechanical means. Such instances include;
- Electronic regulators as used in modern railway sets where the voltage is raised or lowered to control the speed of the engine
- Mechanical systems such as valves as used in fluid control systems. Purely mechanical pre-automotive systems included such designs as the Watt centrifugal governor whereas modern systems may have electronic fluid speed sensing components directing solenoids to set the valve to the desired rate.
- Complex electro-mechanical speed control systems used to maintain speeds in modern cars ( cruise control) - often including hydraulic components,
- An aircraft engine's constant speed unit changes the propellor pitch to maintain engine speed.
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.