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régulateur — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • regulator noun A device that controls or limits something.
  • regulatory adj Relating to official rules or the bodies that enforce them.

Senses

régulateur is used for these senses in English:

  • dispatcher In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.
  • regulator (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
  • regulatory Of or pertaining to regulation.

regulator — full definition

  1. noun A device that controls or limits something.
  2. noun Ellipsis of voltage regulator.
  3. noun A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
  4. noun A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.

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