Regulator may refer to:

Technology

Regulator (automatic control) In automatic control, a regulator is a device which has the function of maintaining a designated characteristic. It performs the activity of managing or maintaining a range of values in a machine. The measurable property of a device is managed clos ...

, a device that maintains a designated characteristic, as in: **

Battery regulator Battery balancing and battery redistribution refer to techniques that improve the available capacity of a battery pack with multiple cells (usually in series) and increase each cell's longevity. A battery balancer or battery regulator is an ele ...

** Pressure regulator ** Diving regulator ** Voltage regulator *

Regulator (sewer) 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 d ...

, a control device used in a combined sewer system * Regulator, a device in mechanical watches 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) Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary in ...

, 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 Regularization may refer to: * Regularization (linguistics) * Regularization (mathematics) * Regularization (physics) * Regularization (solid modeling) * Regularization Law, an Israeli law intended to retroactively legalize settlements See also ...

Music and literature

* ''The Regulators'' (novel), a novel by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman * "The Regulator", a song by Clutch from ''

Blast Tyrant ''Blast Tyrant'' is the sixth full-length studio album by American rock band Clutch and was released March 23, 2004, but has since had a reissue on May 10, 2011. It was the first release with DRT Entertainment by the band. Album information ...

'' * "Regulator", a song by Devin Townsend from '' Ocean Machine: Biomech''

Organizations

* Regulator, a member of the

Royal Navy Police The Royal Navy Police (RNP) is the service police branch of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Members of the RNP enforce service law and discipline. The Royal Navy Police was known as the Royal Navy Regulating Branch until 2007, when the servic ...

, 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 The Regulator Movement, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Province of North Carolina, Provincial North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 in which citizens took up arms against colo ...

(1765–1771) in Provincial North Carolina * Regulator, a member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during

Shays' Rebellion Shays Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. The ...

(1786) * Regulators, a faction in the

Regulator–Moderator War The 1839–1844 Regulator–Moderator War, or the Shelby County War, was a nineteenth century feud in East Texas during the Republic of Texas years between rival factions. The war started out as a dispute of land ownership before becoming a viol ...

(1839–1844) * Regulator, a vigilante organized in response to the

Banditti of the Prairie The Banditti of the Prairie, also known as The Banditti, Prairie Pirates, Prairie Bandits, and Pirates of the Prairie, in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and the Territory of Iowa, were a group of loose-knit outlaw gangs, duri ...

(1835–1848) *

Lincoln County Regulators The Lincoln County Regulators, or just the Regulators, were an American Old West deputized posse that fought in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, during the late 19th century. Members history and friendships The Regulators were formed out ...

, a deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878) *

Regulatory agency A regulatory agency (regulatory body, regulator) or independent agency (independent regulatory agency) is a government authority that is responsible for exercising autonomous dominion over some area of human activity in a licensing and regulatin ...

, a governmental body which oversees a particular economic activity

Other uses

* Regulator, a flood control structure designed to manage the return of flood water from flood plains and diversion areas to the main channel * ''Regulator'' (sternwheeler), a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1891