Definition of "regulator" in Englisch

noun

1. A device that controls or limits something.

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

5. (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.

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.