Thermostat - Wiktionary

See also: Thermostat

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:thermostatWikipedia

Etymology

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From thermo- +‎ -stat.

Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɝməstæt/, /ˈθɝmoʊstæt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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thermostat (plural thermostats)

1. A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting.
   • 2025 January 1, Jacob Krol, “The best smart thermostats of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN‎[1], archived from the original on 15 September 2025:A smart thermostat can give you remote control over your heating and air conditioning, making sure your home is as cool or toasty as you like when you get home from work or wherever else, and a great one can monitor environmental conditions and your own preferences over time, adjust your systems to keep you comfortable and save you money.That’s why we spent several months testing eight smart thermostats to find the best one for your place.
2. (physics) An algorithm used to maintain a simulated system at a set temperature by absorbing or releasing heat

Derived terms

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• thermostatic
• thermostatically

Translations

[edit] device which maintains the desired temperature

Arabic: منظم حرارة Armenian: թերմոստատ (hy) (tʻermostat) Basque: termostato (eu) Belarusian: тэрмаста́т m (termastát) Bulgarian: термостат m (termostat) Catalan: termostat m Chinese: Mandarin: 恆溫器 / 恒温器 (zh) (héngwēnqì) Czech: termostat m Danish: termostat (da) c Dutch: thermostaat (nl) Esperanto: termostato Faroese: hitastillari m Finnish: termostaatti (fi) French: thermostat (fr) Galician: termóstato m Georgian: თერმოსტატი (termosṭaṭi) German: Thermostat (de) m, Temperaturregler m Greek: θερμοστάτης (el) m (thermostátis) Hebrew: תרמוסטט (he) Hindi: तापस्थापी (tāpasthāpī) Hungarian: termosztát (hu), hőszabályzó, hőfokszabályzó Icelandic: hitastillir m Indonesian: termostat (id) Irish: teirmeastat m Japanese: サーモスタット (ja) (sāmosutatto) Kazakh: термостат (termostat) Khmer: ទែម៉ូស្តាត (tɛɛmoustaat) Korean: 서모스탯 (seomoseutaet), 온도조절기(溫度調節器) (ondojojeolgi) Kyrgyz: термостат (termostat) Latvian: termostats m Malay: laras suhu, termostat Malayalam: തെർമോസ്റ്റാറ്റ് (ml) (teṟmōsṟṟāṟṟŭ) Māori: whakaū mahana Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: termostat m Nynorsk: termostat m Persian: ترموستات (fa) Polish: termostat (pl) m Portuguese: termóstato m, termostato m Romanian: termostat (ro) n Russian: термоста́т (ru) m (termostát) Serbo-Croatian: termostat (sh) m Slovene: termostat (sl) m Spanish: termostato (es) m Swedish: termostat (sv) Tagalog: initsupil Tajik: термостат (tg) (termostat) Tamil: வெப்பநிலைக்காப்பி (veppanilaikkāppi) Telugu: థర్మోస్టాట్ (tharmōsṭāṭ) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: termostat (tr) Uzbek: termostat (uz) Vietnamese: máy điều nhiệt Welsh: thermostat m

See also

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• simmerstat

French

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Etymology

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From thermo- +‎ -stat.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /tɛʁ.mɔs.ta/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

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thermostat m (plural thermostats)

1. thermostat
2. (cooking) gas mark

Further reading

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• “thermostat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Welsh

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English thermostat.

Noun

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thermostat m (plural thermostatau, not mutable)

1. thermostat

Related terms

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• thermostatig

Further reading

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• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “thermostat”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies