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Definition of Self-regulating
1. Adjective. Designed to activate or move or regulate itself. "A self-activating sprinkler system"
Definition of Self-regulating
1. Adjective. Describing something capable of controlling itself. ¹
2. Adjective. Describing an organization or other legal body that establishes standards for itself rather than having them legislated for it by government. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-regulating
Literary usage of Self-regulating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1906)
"... to our drawings is a self-regulating tube, small, and with very thin glass.
Fio. 2.—Special Miiller tube. Bulb 8 centimetres in diameter. ..."
2. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1886)
"self-regulating DYNAMOS. ... theory of the self-regulating dynamo is based upon
the assumption, never absolutely attainable in practice, that there is such ..."
3. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1846)
"Self-Regulating Feeders.—Steam-Gauge.—Barometer-Gauge.—Watt's Invention of the
Indicator.—Counter.—Safety-Valve.—Fusible Pings.—Self Regulating Damper. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"THE GREAT self-regulating STEAM-BALLOON. ' RACE with the winds impetuous o'er
the sky, Teach birds by steam a modern way to fly. ..."
5. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens (1866)
"doctrine I regarded as a self-regulating principle of American State institutions
extending possibly over the continent. Question. ..."
6. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1828)
"LARGE self-regulating RESERVOIR, FOR HYDROGEN. ... represents a self- regulating
reservoir, for hydrogen gas; it is constructed like that described in the ..."
7. Elements of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry (1866)
"Because they are self - regulating. These metals came to be, and continue to be,
money, independent of the enactments of any government. ..."
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