controller
English
/kənˈtɹəʊlə/, /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/
noun
Definitions
- One who controls something.
- (electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
- (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
- (computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
- (nautical) 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.
- (espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
- (linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See
- (software architecture) 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English countreroller derived from contreroulour derived from Middle French contreroleur derived from Latin contrārotulātor suf from English control.
Origin
English
control
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Contrology English
- anticontrol English
- biocontrol English
- control English
- controlee English
- controllable English
- controllerless English
- controllership English
- controlless English
- controlment English
- decontrol English
- dyscontrol English
- enantiocontrol English
- macrocontrol English
- microcontroller English
- miscontrol English
- myocontrol English
- overcontrol English
- overcontroller English
- photocontrol English
- pro-control English
- regiocontrol English
- self-control English
- servo English
- servocontrol English
- servocontroller English
- stereocontrol English
- subcontrol English
- subcontroller English
- telecontrol English
- telecontroller English
- thermocontroller English
- uncontrol English
- undercontroller English
- kontrolli Finnish
- contrārotulātor Latin
- contrôleur French
- microcontrôleur French
- コントロール Japanese
- controllen Middle English
- countreroller Middle English
- controller Danish
- kontrol Malay
- contreroleur Middle French
- კონტროლიორი Georgian
- kontrolim Tok Pisin
- contreroulour xno
- kontrolör Crimean Tatar
- servo
- control
- uncontrol
- controlee
- decontrol
- dyscontrol
- biocontrol
- Contrology
- miscontrol
- subcontrol
- myocontrol
- overcontrol
- pro-control
- telecontrol
- controlless
- anticontrol
- controlment
- regiocontrol
- macrocontrol
- photocontrol
- controllable
- servocontrol
- self-control
- stereocontrol
- subcontroller
- telecontroller
- controllerless
- overcontroller
- controllership
- enantiocontrol
- undercontroller
- microcontroller
- servocontroller
- thermocontroller