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A control device designed to maintain the value of some quantity substantially constant. The value to be maintained can usually be established at any value within the range of the regulator by making an appropriate setting. A regulated system is a feedback control system employing a regulator to maintain some quantity of the system at a constant value. See also Control systems.

n. see North Carolina Regulators.

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In a gas supply system, a device for controlling and maintaining a uniform gas supply pressure.

Regulators were vigilantes. The term was used by the 5,000 to 6,000 Regulators in the Carolinas between 1767 and 1771, adopted from an earlier, short-lived London police auxiliary. Most American regulators sought to protect their communities from outlaws and tyrannical public officials. Some groups employed summary execution; more employed flogging and exile. Regulators were active in almost every state, peaking recurrently from the 1790s to the late 1850s. After 1865, a few Regulator groups flourished, mainly in Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, and Florida. Some interfered with freedmen, but most concentrated on crime deterrence and punishment. Similar organizations included Slickers, law and order leagues, citizens' committees, vigilance committees, and committees of safety.

Bibliography

Brown, Richard Maxwell. The South Carolina Regulators. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963.

———. "The American Vigilante Tradition." In The History of Violence in America. Edited by Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr. New York: Bantam Books, 1969.

Powell, William S., James K. Huhta, and Thomas J. Farnham. The Regulators in North Carolina: A Documentary History, 1759–1776. Raleigh, N.C.: State Department of Archives and History, 1971.

Device or circuit that maintains a desired output under changing conditions.

The mechanical part of a gas delivery system that controls gas pressure that allows a manageable flow of drug vapor to escape.

• Electricity and Electronics - regulator: automatic device used to maintain current or voltage in circuit
• Working Parts - regulator: device that controls voltage sent by alternator to battery

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Regulator may refer to:

• Regulator (automatic control), a device that maintains a designated characteristic, as in:
  • Battery regulator
  • Pressure regulator
  • Diving regulator
  • Voltage regulator
• Regulator (economics), an agency established by central government for the control of or intervention in the operation of markets
• Regulator gene, a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes
• Regulatory agency or Regulator, an agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity
• A precision pendulum clock, originally used as a time-standard for adjusting or regulating other clocks and watches
• An auxiliary physics concept used in regularization
• Regulator (mathematics), a positive real number used in Dirichlet's unit theorem
• A British term for a steam engine's throttle
• A component of Uilleann pipes, a form of bagpipes
• A flood control structure designed to manage the return of flood water from flood plains and diversion areas to the main channel

Music and literature

• The Regulators, a novel by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
• "The Regulator", a song by Clutch from Blast Tyrant
• "Regulator", a song by Devin Townsend from Ocean Machine: Biomech

Groups of people

• A member of the Royal Navy Police
• A faction in the War of the Regulation (1760–1771)
• A member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during Shays' Rebellion (1786)
• A faction in the Regulator–Moderator War (1839–1844)
• A vigilante organized in response to the Banditti of the Prairie (1835–1848)
• The Lincoln County Regulators, a deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878)

See also

• All pages beginning with "regulator"
• All pages with titles containing "regulator"
• Regulate (disambiguation)
• Regulation (disambiguation)

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