thermostat

1. 1.

   control the temperature with a thermostat

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Other forms of thermostat

plural

thermostats·

past tense

thermostatted·

present participle

thermostatting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thermostat

What does thermostat mean?

thermostat means "a regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thermostat?

thermostat has 3 syllables: ther-mo-stat. The stress falls on "ther". In IPA it is /ˈθɝməˌstæt/.

What is another word for thermostat?

Close synonyms include thermoregulator. 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 thermostat a common word?

thermostat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.