Associations to the word «Thermostat»

Wiktionary

THERMOSTAT, noun. A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting

Dictionary definition

THERMOSTAT, noun. A regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat.
THERMOSTAT, verb. Control the temperature with a thermostat.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope