thermostat

See also: Thermostat

English

Etymology

From thermo- +‎ -stat

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• thermostatic
• thermostatically

Translations

device which maintains the desired temperature

• Armenian: թերմոստատ (hy) (tʿermostat)
• Basque: termostato (eu)
• Catalan: termostat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恆溫器 (zh), 恒温器 (zh) (héngwēnqì)

• Czech: termostat m
• Danish: termostat (da) c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: termostaatti (fi)
• French: thermostat (fr)
• Galician: termóstato m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Thermostat m
• Japanese: サーモスタット (sāmosutatto)

• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: termostats m
• Malay: laras suhu, termostat
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: termostat m

  Nynorsk: termostat m

• Polish: termostat m
• Portuguese: termostato m
• Russian: термоста́т (ru) m (termostát)
• Spanish: termostato (es) m
• Tagalog: initsupil
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• simmerstat

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French

Noun

thermostat m (plural thermostats)

1. thermostat
2. (cooking) gas mark

Further reading

• “thermostat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).