regolatore — meaning in English

English meaning

• ballast noun Heavy material carried in a ship, balloon, or vehicle to provide stability.
• regulator noun A device that controls or limits something.

Senses

regolatore is used for these senses in English:

• ballast (countable, electricity, electronics) device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
• regulator A device that controls or limits something.
• regulator (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.

ballast — full definition

1. noun Heavy material carried in a ship, balloon, or vehicle to provide stability.
2. noun Crushed stone or gravel laid down to form a stable bed for a road or railway track.
3. verb To stabilise something by loading it with heavy material.

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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