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Definition: Self-regulating |
Self-regulatingAdjective1. Designed to activate or move or regulate itself; "a self-activating sprinkler system". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-regulating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Synonyms: Self-regulatingSynonyms: self-acting (adj), self-activating (adj), self-moving (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: self regulating (mechanical engineering). |
Crosswords: Self-regulating |
| English words defined with "self-regulating": Automatical ♦ liberal, liberalism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "self-regulating": heater drain pump. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pile driver pounding sheet metal into location of the self-regulating tide gate SRT.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | India | Designed to be a self-regulating mechanism for the press, it investigates complaints of irresponsible journalism and sets a code of conduct for publishers. (references) |
Economic History | Colombia | The exchanges are self-regulating within the guidelines set by the Superintendency of Securities. (references) |
Costa Rica | The regulatory system is weak, a legacy of the recent past when the state-owned banks were virtually alone in the market and were effectively self-regulating. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | Lawyers are organizing private law firms that are self-regulating and do not have their personnel or budgets determined directly by the State. (references) |
Trade | Guatemala | The market has been largely self-regulating in package quantities and product quality. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Self-regulating" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Self-regulating" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.31% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-regulating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自我调节. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | selvadministrerende bistandskollektiver (self-regulating communities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | collectivités auto-disciplinaires (self-regulating communities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | selbstregulierend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινότητες αυτόνομης διοίκησης (self-regulating communities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | collettivit autodisciplinari (self-regulating communities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-regulatingsay autorregulador. (various references) саморегулюючий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-g-g-i-l-l-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: legislature. | |
-4 letters: flatliners, flustering, generalist, granulites, gruellings, leafleting, leaguering, neutralise, refuelling, regelating, regulating, reinflates, relegating, resaluting, retellings, teaselling, treillages. | |
-5 letters: agentries, algerines, allergens, allergies, allergins, allergist, anglesite, elaterins, entailers, estuarine, faltering, farseeing, featuring, fellating, fenestral, festering, figeaters, figurants, filagrees, filatures, finaglers, flaggiest, flaneries, flatliner, flatlines, flatlings, flaunters, flauntier, frauleins, fruitages, fulleries, fullering, galenites. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 66 2D 72 65 67 75 6C 61 74 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01110010 01100101 01100111 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l f - r e g u l a t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0072 0065 0067 0075 006C 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537178721584717387786786758073 |
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