thermostat.

A control device that acts to maintain temperature around a set level or range.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a thermostat setting
• a faulty thermostat

On the page

A faulty thermostat kept the chamber below its intended temperature.

She lowered the thermostat setting before leaving the module.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular thermostat; plural thermostats. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.