Definition of "self-regulating" []

• Regulating oneself or itself. (adjective)
• Regulating itself automatically. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In other words, you are built to be self-regulating and self-healing."
• "It is the whole living system that holds the self-regulating processes inherent within the organization of your biological being."
• "Moreover, this dual investment in Americanness and whiteness was always presented as a self-regulating paternalism."