thermostat

thermostat

See also: Thermostat

English

Etymology

From thermo- +‎ -stat.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθɝməstæt/, /ˈθɝmoʊstæt/

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Noun

thermostat (plural thermostats)

1. A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting.
2. (physics) An algorithm used to maintain a simulated system at a set temperature by absorbing or releasing heat

Derived terms

• thermostatic
• thermostatically

Translations

device which maintains the desired temperature

Arabic: منظم حرارة‎ Armenian: թերմոստատ (hy) (tʿermostat) Basque: termostato (eu) Belarusian: тэрмаста́т m (termastát) Bulgarian: термостат m (termostat) Catalan: termostat m Chinese: Mandarin: 恆溫器／恒温器 (zh) (héngwēnqì) Czech: termostat m Danish: termostat (da) c Dutch: thermostaat (nl) Esperanto: termostato Faroese: hitastillari m Finnish: termostaatti (fi) French: thermostat (fr) Galician: termóstato m Georgian: თერმოსტატი (termosṭaṭi) German: Thermostat m, Temperaturregler m Greek: θερμοστάτης (el) m (thermostátis) Hebrew: תרמוסטט‎ (he) Hindi: तापस्थापी (tāpasthāpī) Hungarian: termosztát (hu), hőszabályzó, hőfokszabályzó Icelandic: hitastillir m Japanese: サーモスタット (sāmosutatto) Kazakh: термостат (termostat) Khmer: ទែម៉ូស្តាត (tɛɛmoustaat) Korean: 온도조절기 (ondojojeolgi) Kyrgyz: термостат (termostat) Latvian: termostats m Malay: laras suhu, termostat Malayalam: തെർമോസ്റ്റാറ്റ് (ml) (teṟmōsṟṟāṟṟŭ) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: termostat m Nynorsk: termostat m Persian: ترموستات‎ (fa) Polish: termostat (pl) m Portuguese: termostato m Romanian: termostat (ro) n Russian: термоста́т (ru) m (termostát) Serbo-Croatian: termostat (sh) m Slovene: termostat (sl) m Spanish: termostato (es) m Swedish: termostat (sv) Tagalog: initsupil Tajik: термостат (tg) (termostat) Tamil: வெப்பநிலைக்காப்பி (veppanilaikkāppi) Telugu: థర్మోస్టాట్ (tharmōsṭāṭ) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: termostat (tr) Uzbek: termostat (uz) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• simmerstat

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛʁ.mɔs.ta/

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Noun

thermostat m (plural thermostats)

1. thermostat
2. (cooking) gas mark

Further reading

• “thermostat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.