rheostat

Questions about rheostat

What does rheostat mean?

rheostat means "resistor for regulating current".

How many syllables are in rheostat?

rheostat has 3 syllables: rhe-o-stat. The stress falls on "rhe".

What is another word for rheostat?

Close synonyms include variable resistor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rheostat a common word?

rheostat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.