regulator in Portuguese

regulator in Portuguese

What does "regulator" mean?

1. noun A device that manages or restricts something.
   "This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train."
2. noun A shortened way of saying voltage regulator.
   "The radio stopped working because the regulator in the power supply had failed."
3. noun A person or organisation that sets rules of practice, especially rules with the backing of the law.
   "The financial regulator fined the bank for failing to protect its customers."
4. noun A highly precise clock that clockmakers use to check how accurately each new clock keeps time.
   "The clockmaker compared every new watch with the regulator on his workshop wall."

regulator in a sentence

• This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.
• Driver G. A. Rowett, of the North Eastern Region's Neville Hill shed, now joined the locomotive as pilotman, and actually took over the regulator, Fireman Wheddon continuing to fire.
• The radio stopped working because the regulator in the power supply had failed.
• He replaced the regulator on the circuit board so the lamp would not flicker.

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