regulation
regulating | the act of controlling or directing according to rule, fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians |
regulation regularization
regularisation | the act of bringing to uniformity, making regular |
| current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
| valve | one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods |
| valve | the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs |
accelerator
throttle
throttle valve | a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine |
| ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
| butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
clack valve
clack
clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
| exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
| heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
| intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
poppet
poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
rocker arm
valve rocker | a lever pivoted at the center, used especially to push a valve down in an internalombustion engine |
safety valve
relief valve
escape valve
escape cock
escape | a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler), it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level |
| slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
sluicegate
sluice valve
floodgate
penstock head gate water gate | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
tube vacuum tube
thermionic vacuum tube
thermionic tube
electron tube
thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
| valve | control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid |
| valve | device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone |
| valve-in-head engine | internalombustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head |
mitral valve
bicuspid valve
left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
tricuspid valve
right atrioventricular valve | valve with three cusps, situated between the right atrium and the right ventricle, allows blood to pass from atrium to ventricle and closes to prevent backflow when the ventricle contracts |
| atrioventricular valve | either of two heart valves through which blood flows from the atria to the ventricles, prevents return of blood to the atrium |
| aortic valve | a semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta, prevents blood from flowing from the aorta back into the heart |
| pulmonary valve | a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery, prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart |
| semilunar valve | a heart valve with cusps shaped like half-moons, prevents blood from flowing back into the heart |
heart valve
cardiac valve | a valve to control one-way flow of blood |
| valve | a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it |
| ileocecal valve | valve between the ileum of the small intestine and the cecum of the large intestine, prevents material from flowing back from the large to the small intestine |
pyloric sphincter
pyloric valve
musculus sphincter pylori | the sphincter muscle of the pylorus that separates the stomach from the duodenum |
rule
regulation | a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior, it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast, short haircuts were the regulation |
regulation
ordinance | an authoritative rule |
tidal flow
tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
riptide
rip current | a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore |
current
stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
stream
flow
current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
alternating current
AC
alternating electric current | an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally, In the US most household current is AC atcycles per second |
| current electric current | a flow of electricity through a conductor, the current was measured in amperes |
direct current
DC
direct electric current | an electric current that flows in one direction steadily |
| ocean current | the steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction |
| equatorial current | any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator |
| North Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator |
| South Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just south of the equator |
Japan current
Kuroshio current
Kuroshio | a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean |
Peruvian current
Humboldt current | a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west |
dynamic electricity
current electricity | a flow of electric charge |
| thermionic current | an electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission |
wind
air current current of air | air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure, trees bent under the fierce winds, when there is no wind, row, the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere |