regulator 監管機構；調節器｜字脈

1監管機構；調節器
A regulator is a government body or official organization that makes and enforces rules for an industry, to keep it safe and fair — like a bank regulator or a health regulator. 'Regulator' is also used for a device that controls the amount or rate of something, such as a pressure regulator on a gas tank, or the mouthpiece a scuba breathes through.

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組成From 'regul-' (Latin 'regula,' meaning rule) plus '-ate' and '-or' (a person or thing that does something).

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

regulatornoun/ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.leɪ.tə/

1
A device that controls or limits something.
2
A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
- […]in part because a key county reservoir had to been^([sic]) drained to reduce earthquake risks highlighted by federal regulators.
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A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
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biologygeneticsmedicineA gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
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rail-transportrailwaystransportA device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
- 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.
- To start No. S.002 effectively with a heavy train, one opens the main regulator sufficiently to move the train off very slowly. An excess of regulator opening with the by-pass valve open can cause heavy slipping; if the worst happens, the slipping continues a little longer after the regulator is closed than on an English locomotive.
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historicalSynonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”).
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mathematicssciencesA positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.

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