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Definitions: Thermostat |
ThermostatNoun1. A regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat. Verb1. Control the temperature with a thermostat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thermostat" was first used: 1831. (references) |
Etymology: Thermostat \Ther"mo*stat\, noun. [Thermo- Greek expression to make to stand.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Energy | A device used to control temperatures; used to control the operation of heating and cooling devices by turning the device on or off when a specified temperature is reached. (references) |
| An automatic control devicedesigned to be responsive to temperature and typically used to maintain settemperatures by cycling the HVAC system. (references) | |
Mining | An automatic device for regulating temperature (as by opening or closing the damper of a heating furnace or by regulating the supply of gas) and commonly utilizing either the differential expansion of solids or thevapor pressure of liquids. (references) |
Public Administration | Temperature-sensitive automatic device that regulates and keeps the temperature within determined limits; Some of these devices can also set on an alarm when the extreme temperature is reached. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An apparatus which maintains a system at a constant temperature which may be preselected. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thermostat."
Synonym: ThermostatSynonym: thermoregulator (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thermometer | Thermostat, thermoregulator. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thermostat |
| English words defined with "thermostat": brooder ♦ cryostat ♦ incubator ♦ pyrostat ♦ thermostated, thermostatic, thermostatically. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thermostat": Differential Thermostat ♦ SETBACK THERMOSTAT ♦ THERMOSTAT REPAIRER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Thermostat" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (thermostat), German (thermostat). |
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Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Thermostat recording temperature in the pasteurizing unit at the Burlington cooperative milk bottling plant. Burlington, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Thermostat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.26% of the time. "Thermostat" is used about 115 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 98.26% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.87% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.87% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 115 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "thermostat": set a thermostat. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "thermostat": thermostat-setpoint. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "thermostat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | termostat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ترموستات, جهاز لتنظيم الحرارة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | термостат. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 温箱. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | termostat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | termostat (water regulator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | thermostaat (water regulator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | termostato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | الت تعدیل گرما(.n&.adj), دستگاه تنظیم گرما, بوسیله الت تعدیل گرماکنترل کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | termostaatti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | thermostat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | thermostat (water regulator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρυθμιστήσ τησ θερμοκρασίασ, Θερμοστάτης, θερμοστάτησ, θερμοστάτης (thermistor, water regulator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תרמוסטט, וסת חום. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | termosztát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | alat pengatur panas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | termostato (water regulator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | サーボ機構 (cermet, cum, cycasin, cycle, cyclic, cycling, cycling course, cyclist, psi, psychics, salmon, salmon pink, science, science fiction, scientific, scientist, scientology, Searle, semen, servomechanism, sialon, sirloin, sirloin steak, sperm, thermal printer, thermistor, thermoconcrete, thermoelement, thermometer, thiabendazole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | サーモスタット . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보온장치. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chiass-reilleyder, chermostad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermostatthay termóstato. (various references) termostat, termoregulator (thermoregulator). (various references) термостат. (various references) termostat. (various references) termostato (water regulator). (various references) termostat (thermostate). (various references) termostat. (various references) термостат (incubator). (various references) máy điều nhiệt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | statos. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thermostat": thermostated, thermostatic, thermostatically, thermostating, thermostats, thermostatted, thermostatting. (additional references) | |
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"Thermostat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: termostat, thermostate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thermostat" (pronounced ther"musta't) |
| 4 | -s t a' t | aerostat. |
| 3 | -t a' t | habitat. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-m-o-r-s-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: attestor, hemostat, rheostat, teraohms, testator. | |
-3 letters: earshot, hamster, hatters, hottest, maestro, matters, mothers, rotates, shatter, smatter, smother, stomate, stretta, stretto, tartest, tatters, teraohm, thermos, threats, throats, toaster, totters. | |
-4 letters: ahorse, armets, ashore, attest, earths, harems, haters, hatter, hearts, hoarse, homers, horste, hotter, mahoes, masher, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, metros, mosher, motets, mother. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-m-o-r-s-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: thermostats. | |
+2 letters: thermostated, thermostatic. | |
+3 letters: methotrexates, thermostating, thermostatted. | |
+4 letters: thermostatting. | |
+5 letters: thermostability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 65 72 6D 6F 73 74 61 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... . .-. -- --- ... - .- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101111 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h e r m o s t a t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0065 0072 006D 006F 0073 0074 0061 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54747184798185866786 |
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