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Thermostat

A thermostat is a wall-mounted device used to control home heating systems by switching the heating on and off to maintain a set temperature. While marked in degrees like a thermometer, a thermostat gets its name from the Greek words for "heat" and "standing," indicating its purpose is to keep the heat level consistent by turning the heating system on when temperatures drop and off once the desired temperature is reached.

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Thermostat

A thermostat is a wall-mounted device used to control home heating systems by switching the heating on and off to maintain a set temperature. While marked in degrees like a thermometer, a thermostat gets its name from the Greek words for "heat" and "standing," indicating its purpose is to keep the heat level consistent by turning the heating system on when temperatures drop and off once the desired temperature is reached.

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You might have a temperature control on a wall in your home to control

the heating system but, although it's probably marked in degrees, it's not
a thermometer. It's called a thermostat, a modern word based on two ancient
Greek ones:thermo (meaning heat) and statos (which means standing and is
related to words like stasis, status quo, and staticmeaning to stay the same).
We can tell just from its name that a thermostat is something that "keeps heat
the same": when our home is too cold, the thermostat switches on the heating
so things quickly warm up; once the temperature reaches the level we've set,
the thermostat switches the heating off so we don't boil.

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