thermostat

See also: Thermostat

English

Etymology

From thermo- ‎ -stat.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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Noun

A modern digital thermostat (sense 1)

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) (tʻermostat)
• 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 (de) m, Temperaturregler m
• Greek: θερμοστάτης (el) m (thermostátis)
• Hebrew: תרמוסטט (he)
• Hindi: तापस्थापी (tāpasthāpī)
• Hungarian: termosztát (hu), hőszabályzó, hőfokszabályzó
• Icelandic: hitastillir m
• Indonesian: termostat (id)
• Irish: teirmeastat m
• Japanese: サーモスタット (ja) (sāmosutatto)
• Kazakh: термостат (termostat)
• Khmer: ទែម៉ូស្តាត (tɛɛmoustaat)
• Korean: 온도조절기 (ondojojeolgi)
• Kyrgyz: термостат (termostat)
• Latvian: termostats m
• Malay: laras suhu, termostat
• Malayalam: തെർമോസ്റ്റാറ്റ് (ml) (teṟmōsṟṟāṟṟŭ)
• Maori: whakaū mahana
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: termostat m

  Nynorsk: termostat m

• Persian: ترموستات (fa)
• Polish: termostat (pl) m
• Portuguese: termóstato m, 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: máy điều nhiệt
• Welsh: thermostat m

See also

• simmerstat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛʁ.mɔs.ta/

• Audio:

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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.

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English thermostat.

Noun

thermostat m (plural thermostatau, not mutable)

1. thermostat

Related terms

• thermostatig

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “thermostat”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies