Regulator

Regulator may refer to:

Technology

 * Regulator (automatic control), a device that maintains a designated characteristic, as in:
 * Battery regulator
 * Pressure regulator


 * Diving regulator
 * Voltage regulator
 * Regulator (sewer), a control device used in a combined sewer system
 * Regulator (timepiece), a device in mechanical timepieces attached to the balance spring for adjusting the rate of the balance wheel
 * Regulator precision pendulum clock, originally used as a time-standard for adjusting or regulating other clocks and watches
 * Regulator, the throttle of a steam engine
 * Regulator, a component of Uilleann pipes, a form of bagpipes

Science

 * Regulator (mathematics), a positive real number used in Dirichlet's unit theorem
 * Regulator (biology), an animal that is able to maintain a constant internal environment
 * Regulator gene, a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes
 * Regulator, an auxiliary physics concept used in regularization

Music and literature

 * The Regulators (novel), 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

Organizations

 * Regulator, a member of the Royal Navy Police, formerly the Royal Navy Regulating Branch
 * Regulator, a member of the Red Army traffic control units, mostly female
 * Regulators, a faction in the Regulator Movement (1765–1771) in Provincial North Carolina
 * Regulator, a member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during Shays' Rebellion (1786)
 * Regulators, a faction in the Regulator–Moderator War (1839–1844)
 * Regulator, a vigilante organized in response to the Banditti of the Prairie (1835–1848)
 * Lincoln County Regulators, a deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878)
 * Regulatory agency, a governmental body which oversees a particular economic activity

Transportation

 * Regulator (sternwheeler), a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1891