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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rheostat /ˈriːəstat/

▶noun an electrical instrument used to control a current by varying the resistance.

– derivatives
rheostatic adjective.

– origin C19: from Gk rheos ‘stream’ + -stat.

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