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  There are two items of diving gear that I have heard called a `regulator':-
  (1) The whole assembly that you fasten onto the pillar valve which is on top
of your cylinder.
  (2) The smallish roundish thing with a mouthpiece on, which is on the end of
a medium-pressure hose, forming part of (1).

  OK, I know that both are often called a `regulator'. But how do people
simply concisely refer to (1) or to (2) so the reader knows it means that
meaning and not the other? Calling (1) an `octopus rig' is only valid if it
has at least two of (2) on it, which they don't always have.
  When I started diving in 1965 and for a long time after, this confusion
didn't occur, as in those times a (1) was a big round (2) with two thick
breathing tubes on it like in old pictures of Cousteau and Hans Hass.

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