Regulator may refer to:

Technology

  • Regulator (automatic control), a device that maintains a designated characteristic, as in:
  • Battery regulator
  • Pressure regulator

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  • Diving regulator
  • Voltage regulator
  • Regulator (sewer), a control device used in a combined sewer system
  • Regulator (timepiece), a device in mechanical timepieces attached to the balance spring for adjusting the rate of the balance wheel
  • Regulator precision pendulum clock, originally used as a time-standard for adjusting or regulating other clocks and watches
  • Regulator, the throttle of a steam engine
  • Regulator, a component of Uilleann pipes, a form of bagpipes

Science

  • Regulator (mathematics), a positive real number used in Dirichlet's unit theorem
  • Regulator (biology), an animal that is able to maintain a constant internal environment
  • Regulator gene, a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes
  • Regulator, an auxiliary physics concept used in regularization

Music and literature

  • The Regulators (novel), a novel by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
  • "The Regulator", a song by Clutch from Blast Tyrant
  • "Regulator", a song by Devin Townsend from Ocean Machine: Biomech

Organizations

  • Regulator, a member of the Royal Navy Police, formerly the Royal Navy Regulating Branch
  • Regulator, a member of the Red Army traffic control units, mostly female
  • Regulators, a faction in the Regulator Movement (1765&ndash;1771) in Provincial North Carolina
  • Regulator, a member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during Shays' Rebellion (1786)
  • Regulators, a faction in the Regulator–Moderator War (1839&ndash;1844)
  • Regulator, a vigilante organized in response to the Banditti of the Prairie (1835&ndash;1848)
  • Lincoln County Regulators, a deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878)
  • Regulatory agency, a governmental body which oversees a particular economic activity

Transportation

  • Regulator (sternwheeler), a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1891

See also

  • Regulate (disambiguation)
  • Regulation (disambiguation)