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Substantiivi

1. A device that controls or limits something.
2. Ellipsis of voltage regulator.
3. A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
4. A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
5. (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
6. (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
7. (historical) Synonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”).
8. (mathematics) A positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.