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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈtɹəʊlə/

Definition 1:
• One who controls something.

Definition 2:
• Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
Labels: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

Definition 3:
• The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
Labels: business

Definition 4:
• A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
Labels: computer-hardware, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Definition 5:
• A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: game controller
Labels: video-games

Definition 6:
• An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
Labels: nautical, transport

Definition 7:
• The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
Labels: espionage, government, military, politics, war

Definition 8:
• The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
Labels: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Definition 9:
• In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.
Labels: architecture, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/controller