Word Meanings - SELF-REGULATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Regulated by one's self or by itself.
Related words: (words related to SELF-REGULATED)
- REGULATE
1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their - REGULATION
1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. 2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; - REGULATIVE
Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton. Note: These terms are borrowed from Kant, and - REGULATOR
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 - ITSELF
The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke. - SELF-REGULATED
Regulated by one's self or by itself. - THERMOREGULATOR
A device for the automatic regulation of temperature; a thermostat. - SELF-REGULATIVE
Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself. Whewell. - MISREGULATE
To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate. - IRREGULATE
To make irregular; to disorder. Sir T. Browne.