Regulator

Regulator may refer to:

• Regulator (automatic control), a device that maintains a designated characteristic
  • Battery regulator
  • Pressure regulator
  • Diving regulator
  • Voltage regulator
• Regulator (economics), an agency established by central government for the control of or intervention in the operation of markets
• Regulator gene, a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes
• Regulatory agency or Regulator, an agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity
• Regulator, a precision pendulum clock - originally used as a time-standard for adjusting or regulating other clocks and watches
• Regulator, an auxiliary physics concept used in regularization
• Regulator (mathematics), a positive real number used in Dirichlet's unit theorem
• Regulator, British term for a steam engine's throttle
• Regulators, components of Uilleann pipes, a form of bagpipes

Music and literature

• The Regulators, 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

Groups of people

• Regulator, the former name for a member of the Royal Navy Police
• Regulator, a faction in the War of the Regulation (1760-1771)
• Regulator, a member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during Shays' Rebellion (1786)
• Regulator, a faction in the Regulator–Moderator War (1839-1844)
• Regulator, a vigilante organized in response to the Banditti of the Prairie (1835-1848)
• Regulator, a member of the Lincoln County Regulators, deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878)
• Regulator, a member of Bravo Company, Third Battalion of Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion TWO

See also

• All pages beginning with "regulator"
• All pages with titles containing "regulator"
• Regulate (disambiguation)
• Regulation (disambiguation)