regula table (regulatabl)

[ regulate (reg'ū-lāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. regu lated, ppr. regulating. [L. regulatus, pp. of regulare (> It. regolare = Sp. reglar, regular = Pg. regular, regrar = F. régler ), direct, rule, regulate, If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delight full to man. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 23. per. When I travel, I always choose to regulate my own sup Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 1. One of the settled conclusions of political economy is that wages and prices cannot be artificially regulated . H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 501. 2. To put or keep in good order: as, to regu late the disordered state of a nation or its finances; to regulate the digestion. You must learn by trial how much half a turn of the screw accelerates or retards the watch per day, and after that you can regulate it to the utmost nicety. Sir E. Beckett , Clocks, Watches, and Bells, p. 300. 3. Specifically, in musical instruments with a keyboard, so to adjust the action that it shall be noisele , prompt, and sensitive to the touch. =Syn. 1. Rule , Manage , etc. See govern . regulating (reg'ū-lā-ting), n. 1. The act ind i cated by the verb regulate. Specifically-2. In rail., the work in the yard of making up trains, storing cars, etc.; drilling or switching. regulating-screw (reg'ū-lā-ting-skrö), n. In organ-building, a screw by which the dip of the s of the keyboard may be adjusted. regulation (reg-ū-lāʼshon), n.and a. [=F. régu lati on = Sp. regula cion = Pg. regulação = It. regolazione, No form of co-operation, small or great, can be carried on without regulation, and an implied submi ion to the regulating agencies. H. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 39. 2. A rule or order prescribed by a superior or competent authority as to the actions of those under its control; a governing direction; precept; law: as, police regulations; more specifically, a rule prescribed by a municipality, corporation, or society for the conduct of third persons dealing with it, as distinguished from ( a ) by law, a term which is generally used rather with reference to the standing rules governing its own internal organization and the conduct of its officers and members, and ( b ) ordinance, which is generally used in the United States for the local legislation of municipalities.-3. In musical instruments with a keyboard, the act or proce of adjusting the action so that it shall be noisele , prompt, and sensitive to every variation of touch.- Army regulations. See army2. General regulations, a system of ordinances for the administration of the affairs of the army, and for better prescribing the respective duties and powers of officers and men in the military service, and embracing all forms of a general character. Ives. =Syn. 1. Disposition, ordering, adjustment.-2. Ordinance, Statute, etc. See law1. II. a . Having a fixed or regulated pattern or style; in accord with a rule or standard. [Colloq.] The regulation mode of cutting the hair. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xviii. My regulation saddle-holsters and housings. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxx. regulation (reg-ū-lā'shon), v. t. [ The Javanese knows no freedom. His whole existence is regulationed . Quoted in Encyc . Brit ., XII. 604. regulative (reg'ū-lā-tiv), a . [ regulate + -ive .] Regulating; tending to regulate. Ends and uses are the regulative reasons of all existing things. Bushnell , Sermons for New Life, p. 12. It is the aim of the Dialectic to show... that there are certain ideas of reason which are regulative of all our empirical knowledge, and which also limit it. E. Caird , Philos. of Kant, p. 197. Regulative faculty, Sir W. Hamilton's name for the faculty of principles; the noetic faculty. - Regulative idea, a conception resulting from or carrying with it a regulative principle. - Regulative principle. (a) In logic, the leading principle of an argumentation or inference; that general proposition whose truth is required to justify the habit of inference which has given rise in any case to the particular inference of which this proposition is said to be the regulative principle: opposed to constitutive prin ciple, or pre-major premise. [This use of the term originated in the fifteenth century.] 5051 Which be the principles irregulatiue? The Principles regulatiue of a syllogisme be these two phrases of speech: Blundeville, Arte of Logicke (ed. 1619), v. 1. to be spoken of all, and to be spoken of none. thince Kant, a rule showing what we ought to a ume without giving any a urance that the fact to be a umed is true; or a proposition which will lead to the truth if it be true, while if it be false the truth cannot be attained: such, for example, is the rule that we must not despair of answering any question by sufficient investigation. (c) A rule of conduct which, if it be pursued, may lead us to our desired end, while, if it be not pursued, that end cannot be attained in any way. Regulative use of a conception. See constitutive use of a concep tion, under constitutive. regulator (reg'ū-la-tor), п. [=F. régulateur = Sp. Pg. regulador = It. regolatore, Members of the unauthorized a ociations which have at various times been formed in parts of the United States for the carrying out of a rough substitute for justice in the case of heinous or notorious crimes have been called regulators. 2. A mechanical contrivance intended to produce uniformity of motion, temperature, power, etc. (a) In eng in, and mach.: (1) A governor in the sense described and illustrated under governor, 6. (2) A governor employed to control the closing of the port-opening for admi ion of steam to the cylinder of an automatically variable cut-off steam-engine. This is a numerous cla of regulators, in which the ball-governor described under governor, 6, is used to control the motion of the induction valve instead of that of the throttle-valve. By leaving the throttle-valve fully open and closing the induction-valve earlier or later in the stroke, the steam arrives in the cylinder nearly at full pre ure, and with its full store of available heat for conversion into work by expansion. (3) An arrangement of weights, springs, and an eccentric or eccentrics, carried on the fly-wheel shaft or on the fly-wheel of a steam-engine, connected with the stem of the induc tion-valve by an eccentric-rod, and automatically varying IMG:content-1887.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] a, fly-wheel shaft; a, b, and a, b, eccentricities in different pos i tions of the eccentrics and d. The eccentric e turns freely on the shaft a, and is actuated by links e, that are pivoted to ears forned on the eccentric, and are also pivoted to weights. The weights have the form of curved bars, and and are pivoted at one end to spokes of the wheel, as shown at g. The eccentric dis fitted to and turns freely upon the perimeter of the eccentric c. It is also connected by a link in to the toe of one of the weights, and is rotated on by the motion of the weight toward or away from the center of the shaft a. The eccentric c is also rotated on the shaft a by the motion of the weights to or from the center of the shaft, but it is turned in a direction opposite to that in which d is turned. These two eccentricities, therefore, con stitute a compound eccentric, the eccentricity or "throw" of which varies with the position of the weights, while the "lead" remains practically the same. Coiled springs k constantly pre the weights toward the center, and the action of these springs is more or le overcome by centrifugal force as the shaft a rotates with greater or le velocity. The higher the velocity the le will be the throw of the valve and the shorter the cut-off, and vice vers a. Fig. I shows the weights in their extreme outward position, in which the throw ab is the least po ible. Fig. 2 shows the extreme inward position of the weights, in which the throw ab ' is the greatest po ible. The range of variable cut-off is thus carried from simple lead to 0.7 of the stroke, and a very small percentage of change in the velocity is sufficient to change the cut-off from its least to its greatest limit. the cut-off, maintaining a uniform speed of rotation under It regurgitation called valve - gear or valve - motion. - Regulator-valve, a throttle-valve.