Regulate vs Autoregulate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between regulate and autoregulate

is that regulate is to dictate policy while autoregulate is to regulate itself or oneself.

(regulat)

To dictate policy.

To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.

* Macaulay

the laws which regulate the successions of the seasons

* Bancroft

The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.

To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.

To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.

to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time

to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.

To put or maintain in order.

to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances

to regulate one's eating habits

* deregulate * downregulate * upregulate

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(autoregulat)

To regulate itself or oneself

''an autoregulating heater

*autoregulation *autoregulative *autoregulatory