regulator

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.leɪ.tə/|/ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪ.tə/    美 /ˈɹɛɡ.ju.leɪ.tɚ/|/ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪ.tɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device that controls or limits something.
  2. A device that controls or limits something.; Ellipsis of voltage regulator. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — The regulator stopped working and the resulting overvoltage destroyed the device.
  3. A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
    — […]in part because a key county reservoir had to been^([sic]) drained to reduce earthquake risks highlighted by federal regulators.
  4. A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
  5. A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
  6. A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
    — 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.
  7. Synonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”). historical
  8. A positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.
  9. Short for diving regulator. abbreviation,alt-of

词形变化

regulators plural

词汇关系

衍生词
acidity regulator autoregulator battery regulator bioregulator coregulator deregulator dysregulator hyporegulator immunoregulator mechanoregulator metalloregulator microregulator mucoregulator multiregulator neuroregulator oncoregulator osmoregulator oxyregulator phosphoregulator photoregulator phytoregulator regulatorship regulatress riboregulator superregulator thermoregulator transregulator vasoregulator voltage regulator
相关词
rector regimen regiment régime region regular regulate regulation rule

词源

Etymology tree
English regulate
English -or
English regulator
From regulate + -or.
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