regulator

From regulate + -or.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.leɪ.tə/, /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪ.tə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛɡ.ju.leɪ.tɚ/, /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪ.tɚ/

regulator (plural regulators)

1. A device that controls or limits something.

   Coordinate terms: governor, modulator, attenuator, synchronizer

   2. Ellipsis of voltage regulator.

      The regulator stopped working and the resulting overvoltage destroyed the device.

2. A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.

   Hypernym: lawmaker

   Coordinate term: legislator

   • 2021 June 15, Suzanne Rust, “A problem Silicon Valley can’t solve: Drought, quake risk”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], Nant Capital, LLC:

     […] in part because a key county reservoir had to been^[sic] drained to reduce earthquake risks highlighted by federal regulators.

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.
5. (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
   • 1958 December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 852:

     Driver G. A. Rowett, of the North Eastern Region's Neville Hill shed, now joined the locomotive as pilotman, and actually took over the regulator, Fireman Wheddon continuing to fire.

   • 1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146:

     To start No. S.002 effectively with a heavy train, one opens the main regulator sufficiently to move the train off very slowly. An excess of regulator opening with the by-pass valve open can cause heavy slipping; if the worst happens, the slipping continues a little longer after the regulator is closed than on an English locomotive.

   • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:

     This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.

6. (historical) Synonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”).
7. (mathematics) A positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.
8. Short for diving regulator.

• rector
• regimen
• regiment
• régime
• region
• regular
• regulate
• regulation
• rule

• “regulator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “regulator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “regulator”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Internationalism.

• IPA^(key): /re.ɡu.ˈla.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -tɔr
• Hyphenation: re‧gu‧la‧tor

regulator (plural regulator-regulator)

1. regulator:
   1. a device that controls or limits something

      Synonyms: pembatas, pengatur

   2. a person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law

      Synonym: pengatur

      Synonym: pengawal selia (Standard Malay)

   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

• “regulator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

rēgulātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of rēgulō

• legurator (Sieradz, Sędzimirowice)

Internationalism; compare English regulator, French régulateur, German Regulator, ultimately from Latin rēgulō.

• IPA^(key): /rɛ.ɡuˈla.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: re‧gu‧la‧tor

regulator m inan

1. regulator (device which controls or regulates)
2. regulator (person or group that sets standards of practice)

• “regulator”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “regulator”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French régulateur or German Regulator. By surface analysis, regula +‎ -tor.

regulator m or n (feminine singular regulatoare, masculine plural regulatori, feminine/neuter plural regulatoare)

1. regulating

regulator m (plural regulatori)

1. regulator

regulator n (plural regulatoare)

1. controller