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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A continuously variable electrical resistor used to regulate current.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In electromagnetism, an instrument for regulating lating or adjusting a circuit so that any required degree of resistance may be maintained; a resistance-coil. See resistance, 3.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An electrical resistor, with two terminals, whose resistance is continuously variable by moving a knob or slider.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Elec.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. resistor for regulating current

Etymologies

  1. From rheo- + -stat. (Wiktionary)

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