Word Meanings - THERMOREGULATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A device for the automatic regulation of temperature; a thermostat.

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• THERMOSTAT
  A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.
• DEVICEFUL
  Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
• AUTOMATIC; AUTOMATICAL
  1. Having an inherent power of action or motion. Nothing can be said to be automatic. Sir H. Davy. 2. Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied
• TEMPERATURE
  Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or
• DEVICEFULLY
  In a deviceful manner.
• 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;
• THERMOSTATIC
  Of or pertaining to the thermostat; made or effected by means of the thermostat.
• AUTOMATICALLY
  In an automatic manner.
• DEVICE
  invention, fr. F. devis architect's plan and estimates (in OF., division, plan, wish), devise device , in OF. also, division, wish, last will, fr. deviser. See Devise, v. t., and cf. 1. That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance;
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• CONTEMPERATURE
  The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.
• VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN
  An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear
• INTEMPERATURE
  Intemperateness. Boyle.