Crossword-Solution: RHEOSTAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rheostat | n. | A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “RHEOSTAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dimmer, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Variable resistor | 1 answer |
| Variable resistance | 1 answer |
| Slot car controller | 1 answer |
| Resistor for regulating current | 1 answer |
| Regulator for houselights | 1 answer |
| Radio-set volume control. | 1 answer |
| RESISTOR | 1 answer |
| Light-regulating device | 1 answer |
| Light-dimming gadget | 1 answer |
| Electrical resistor | 1 answer |
| Electrical circuit resistor. | 1 answer |
| Electric current regulator. | 1 answer |
| Dimming gadget | 1 answer |
| Dimmer switch, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Device that regulates current | 1 answer |
| Current-regulating device | 1 answer |
| Current-controlling component | 1 answer |
| Current controller | 1 answer |
| Brightness regulator | 1 answer |
| Current regulator | 2 answers |
| DIMMER ___ | 7 answers |
| Cayuse controller | 10 answers |
| CBS REGULATOR | 10 answers |
| CONTROLLER PUPIL | 10 answers |
| CONTROLLER OF NATURE | 11 answers |
| Electrical device | 12 answers |
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Sentences with RHEOSTAT (5)
The data and parts, such as motor, rheostat, switches, etc., were given to me, and my work was to design the supporting frame, axles, countershafts, driving mechanism, speed control, wheels and boxes, cab, running board, pilot (or 'cow-catcher'), buffers, and even supports for the headlight.
Tried rhythmic traction of the tongue, artificial respiration, stimulants, chest and heart massage--everything, but it was no use:” “Have you any idea what caused his death?” asked Craig as he hastily adjusted his apparatus to an electric light socket--a rheostat, an induction-coil of peculiar shape, and an “interrupter.” “Poison of some kind--an alkaloid.
His visit was merely for the purpose of gathering some apparatus, which included a Crookes tube, carefully packed, a rheostat, and some other paraphernalia which we divided.
But what good would that do, around a corner and so far away? The vocaphone itself! Quickly Kennedy turned another switch, of a rheostat, which accentuated a whisper to almost a shout.
While one of these sets costs more than you can assemble a set for yourself, still, especially in the beginning, it is a good plan to buy an assembled one for it is fitted with a _panel_ on which the adjusting knobs of the rheostat, tuning coil and condenser are mounted and this makes it possible to operate it as soon as you get it home and without the slightest trouble on your part.
Quotes with RHEOSTAT (1)
The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-day and it would be indistinguishable from the one Wyatt Earp wore when he was the Marshal of Dodge City. It is the oldest hand-gun in the world, without question the most famous and, if efficiency in its designated task of maiming and killing be taken as criterion of its worth, then it is also probably the best hand-gun ever made. It is no light thing, it is true, to be wounde…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1955–2020).