regulators
- 1Plural of regulator.
Financial regulators across three countries opened a joint investigation.
The technicians replaced the worn voltage regulators on the test bench.
Note
One plain -s plural covers a crowd of very different things: officials and agencies who set standards, devices that control or limit something, the precise master clocks clockmakers test new clocks against, genes that control the expression of other genes, and the device feeding steam to a locomotive's cylinders. The modifier usually does the sorting (financial regulators, voltage regulators), and in electronics the bare word can stand for voltage regulators.
regulators is a form of regulator
regulator, noun: A device that controls or limits the flow, level, or operation of something. Full entry
- Forms
- regulatorregulators plural
- Spelling
- regulator → regulators: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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