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Self-regulating   /sɛlf-rˈɛgjəlˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Self-regulating

adjective
1.
Designed to activate or move or regulate itself.  Synonyms: self-acting, self-activating, self-moving.






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"Self-regulating" Quotes from Famous Books



... compound wound dynamo, the speed at which the same potential is generated with the full load being taken from the machine, as would be generated on open circuit, in which case the shunt coil is the only exciter. The speed at which the dynamo is self-regulating. ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

... more than that, when the day's toil was over and nothing remained for the others to do, then Cla-cla's night work would begin; and this was to talk all the others, or at all events all the men, to sleep. She was like a self-regulating machine, and punctually every evening, when the door was closed, and the night fire made up, and every man in his hammock, she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener ...
— Green Mansions - A Romance of the Tropical Forest • W. H. Hudson



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