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Word Meanings - SELF-REGULATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Regulated by one's self or by itself.

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  • 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.

 

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