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A thermostat is a regulating device component that senses the temperature of a physical system and performs actions so that the system's temperature is kept near a desired setpoint. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Thermostats have used bimetallic strips but digital thermistors have since become popular.
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