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'Regulator' may refer to:

★ Regulator (automatic control), a device which has the function of maintaining a designated characteristic. For example, a voltage regulator maintains a constant voltage when the input is variable.

★ Battery regulator, a device in a battery pack which bleeds off excess charge current to let all cells reach full charge without overcharging some cells

★ Diving regulator, which provides a scuba diver with breathing gas at ambient pressure from a diving cylinder

★ Gas pressure regulator, a device that is attached to propane, acetylene or butane cylinders to provide a workable low-pressure gas stream from which equipment can be safely operated

★ The Regulator, a software free program that helps the developer create Regular Expressions in a more visual way

★ Voltage regulator, in electronics

★ The 'regulator' of a number field in algebraic number theory (see Dirichlet's unit theorem); a quantity defined from the group of units. After taking logarithms, it has the interpretation of the volume of a fundamental domain in the lattice of units in 'logarithmic space'.

★ ''The Regulator'' is the English name of the French Steampunk comic ''Le Régulateur'' as published in ''Heavy Metal''.

★ 'Regulator', in physics, a construction used in regularization techniques—see regularization (physics)

★ 'Regulator', in social science, an official responsible for control and supervision of an activity or area of public interest

★ 'Regulator', in a steam locomotive, the lever and associated valve which controls the passage of steam from the boiler to the cylinders

★ 'Regulator', a naval police officer in the United Kingdom, a member of the Royal Navy Regulating Branch

★ 'Regulator', a precision clock used as a standard for ''regulating'' other timepieces or for timing astronomical observations
'Regulators' may refer to:-

★ A 'regulatory agency', a body that establishes, monitors, reforms and enforces regulations. See for example competition regulator and economic regulator.

★ Members of the Regulator movement, a small-scale rebellion in North Carolina during the 1760s

★ Members of Shays' Rebellion in 1786, also known as Shaysites

★ The Lincoln County Regulators, a posse formed during the Lincoln County War in the late 1870s; one of its members was Billy the Kid

★ ''The Regulators'', a novel written under Stephen King's pen name, Richard Bachman

★ The Regulators, a country/rock band from southern California

★ Regulators Society, a secret society formed in 1853 at Norwich University, which has ties to theta Chi International Fraternity

★ ''Regulate (song)'', a rap song by Warren G and Nate Dogg

★ Bands of vigilantes calling themselves Regulators, who arose in Northern Illinois in the 1830s and 1840s, in response to the depredations of the Banditti of the Prairie.