Regulator

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Regulator may refer to:

Technology

• Regulator (automatic control), a device that maintains a designated characteristic, as in:
  • Battery regulator
  • Pressure regulator
  • Diving regulator
  • Voltage regulator
• Regulator (sewer), a control device used in a combined sewer system
• A precision pendulum clock, originally used as a time-standard for adjusting or regulating other clocks and watches
• A British term for a steam engine's throttle

Science

• Regulator (economics), an agency established by central government for the control of or intervention in the operation of markets
• Regulator (mathematics), a positive real number used in Dirichlet's unit theorem
• Regulator gene, a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes
• An auxiliary physics concept used in regularization

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

People

• A member of the Royal Navy Police, formerly the Royal Navy Regulating Branch
• A faction in the War of the Regulation (1760–1771)
• A member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during Shays' Rebellion (1786)
• A faction in the Regulator–Moderator War (1839–1844)
• A vigilante organized in response to the Banditti of the Prairie (1835–1848)
• The Lincoln County Regulators, a deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878)

Other

• Regulatory agency or Regulator, an agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity
• A component of Uilleann pipes, a form of bagpipes
• A flood control structure designed to manage the return of flood water from flood plains and diversion areas to the main channel

See also

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

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