Regulator
Regulator may refer to:
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Technology
- Regulator (automatic control), a device that maintains a designated characteristic, as in:
- Regulator (sewer), a control device used in a combined sewer system
- Regulator (timepiece), a device in mechanical timepieces attached to the balance spring for adjusting the rate of the balance wheel
- Regulator precision pendulum clock, originally used as a time-standard for adjusting or regulating other clocks and watches
- Regulator, the throttle of a steam engine
- Regulator, a component of Uilleann pipes, a form of bagpipes
Science
- Regulator (mathematics), a positive real number used in Dirichlet's unit theorem
- Regulator (biology), an animal that is able to maintain a constant internal environment
- Regulator gene, a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes
- Regulator, an auxiliary physics concept used in regularization
Music and literature
- The Regulators (novel), a novel by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
- "The Regulator", a song by Clutch from Blast Tyrant
- "Regulator", a song by Devin Townsend from Ocean Machine: Biomech
Organizations
- Regulator, a member of the Royal Navy Police, formerly the Royal Navy Regulating Branch
- Regulator, a member of the Red Army traffic control units, mostly female
- Regulators, a faction in the Regulator Movement (1765–1771) in Provincial North Carolina
- Regulator, a member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during Shays' Rebellion (1786)
- Regulators, a faction in the Regulator–Moderator War (1839–1844)
- Regulator, a vigilante organized in response to the Banditti of the Prairie (1835–1848)
- Lincoln County Regulators, a deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878)
- Regulatory agency, a governmental body which oversees a particular economic activity
Other uses
- Regulator, a flood control structure designed to manage the return of flood water from flood plains and diversion areas to the main channel
- Regulator (sternwheeler), a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1891
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with regulator
- All pages with titles containing regulator
- Regulate (disambiguation)
- Regulation (disambiguation)
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