bn:00076883n
Noun Concept
Categories: 17th-century inventions, Thermoregulation, Heat transfer, American inventions, Dutch inventions
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thermostat  thermoregulator  animal thermoregulation  Chronothermostat  pneumatic thermostat
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A regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat WordNet 3.0
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A regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A thermostat is a regulating device component which senses the temperature of a physical system and performs actions so that the system's temperature is maintained near a desired setpoint. Wikipedia
A thermal control and management device for heating and cooling systems Wikipedia Disambiguation
Component which maintains a setpoint temperature Wikidata
A device used to maintain the temperature of a system at a desired setpoint temperature. OmegaWiki
Any organism that carries out thermoregulation. Wiktionary
A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting. Wiktionary
Device which maintains the desired temperature. Wiktionary (translation)