EGAVE

controller

About 7.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun One who controls something.
  2. noun Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
  3. noun The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  4. noun A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  5. noun A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
  8. noun The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)

Similar words

control accountant comptroller conductor inspector scrutineer controlling monitor checker examiner

Often followed by

of is and to for in can with or

Word family

controllers controllership controllerships

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