# Control

Control may refer to:

## Basic meanings
### Economics and business

* Control (management), an element of management
* Control, an element of management accounting
* Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization
* Controlling interest, a percentage of voting stock shares sufficient to prevent opposition
* Foreign exchange controls, regulations on trade
* Internal control, a process to help achieve specific goals typically related to managing risk

### Mathematics and science

* Control (optimal control theory), a variable for steering a controllable system of state variables toward a desired goal
* Controlling for a variable in statistics
* Scientific control, an experiment in which "confounding variables" are minimised to reduce error
* Control variables, variables which are kept constant during an experiment
* Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests
* Control network in geodesy and surveying, a set of reference points of known geospatial coordinates
* Control room, a room where a physical facility can be monitored
* Process control in continuous production processes
* Security controls, safeguards against security risks

### Medicine

* Control, according to the ICD-10-PCS, in the Medical and Surgical Section (0), is the root operation (# 3) that means stopping, or attempting to stop, post-procedural bleeding
** Chlordiazepoxide, also sold under the trade name Control
** Lorazepam, sold under the trade name Control

### Systems engineering, computing and technology

* Automatic control, the application of control theory for regulation of processes without direct intervention
* Control character, or non-printing character, in a character set; does not represent a written symbol, but is used to control the interpretation or display of text
** Unicode control characters, characters with no visual or spatial representation
* Control engineering, a discipline of modeling and controlling of systems
* Control system, the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
* Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
* Control flow, means of specifying the sequence of operations in computer programs
* Control variables in programming, which regulate the flow of control
* Control key, on a computer keyboard
* GUI widget (control or widget), a component of a graphical user interface
* Input device (control), a physical user interface to a computer system

### Society, psychology and sociology

* Control (psychology)
* Locus of control, an extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them
* Self-control, the ability to control one's emotions and desires
* Power (social and political), the ability to control others
* Social control, mechanisms that regulate social behavior
* Controlling behavior in relationships
* Control freak, a person who attempts to dictate
* Mind control, the use of manipulative methods to persuade others
* Civilian control of the military

### Other basic uses

* Control point (orienteering), a marked waypoint in orienteering and related sports
* Control (linguistics), a relation between elements of two clauses

## Geography

* Control, Alberta

## Media
### Books

* Control (novel), a 1982 novel by William Goldman
* Control (fictional character), in the 1974 British spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

### Film and TV
#### Films

* Control (1987 film) or Il Giorno prima, a 1987 made-for-television film starring Burt Lancaster
* Control (2004 film), starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez
* Control (2007 film), a film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, directed by Anton Corbijn
* Control (2013 film), a Chinese–Hong Kong film written and directed by Kenneth Bi
* Control (2023 film), a British film directed by Gene Fallaize and featuring the voice of Kevin Spacey
* Control (upcoming film), directed by Robert Schwentke and starring James McAvoy
* Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian film, released as Control internationally
* Control, a UK comedy short by Frank Miller

#### TV

* Control (House), a 2005 episode of the television series House
* Control, a Spanish-language series aired on Univision
* Control, a recurring character in the sketch programme A Bit of Fry & Laurie
* Control, a character on the science fiction crime drama Person of Interest
* [C] - The Money of Soul And Possibility Control, or [C] - Control, a 2011 anime
* Ctrl (web series), an American comedy web series
* CONTROL (Get Smart), a fictional counter-espionage agency

### Games

* Control and control-bid, features of the game contract bridge
* Control (video game), a 2019 video game by Remedy Entertainment

### Music

* Kontrol - a Bulgarian punk band
* Control (Starlight Express), a character from the rock musical

#### Albums

* Control (GoodBooks album), 2007
* Control (Janet Jackson album), 1986
* Control (Pedro the Lion album), 2002
* Control, a 2011 album by Abandon
* Control, a 2014 album by The Brew
* Control, a 1981 album by Conrad Schnitzler
* Control, a 2013 EP by Disclosure
* Control, a 1994 album by Hellnation
* Control, a 2012 EP by The Indecent
* Control, a 1971 album by John St Field
* Control, a 2012 album by Uppermost
* Control, a 2003 album by Where Fear and Weapons Meet
* Ctrl (SZA album), 2017

#### Songs

* "Control" (Big Sean song), 2013
* "Control" (Garbage song), 2012
* "Control" (Janet Jackson song), 1986
* "Control" (Kid Sister song), 2007
* "Control" (Matrix & Futurebound song), 2013
* "Control" (Metro Station song), 2007
* "Control" (Mutemath song), 2004
* "Control" (Poe song), 1998
* "Control" (Puddle of Mudd song), 2001
* "Control" (Traci Lords song), 1994
* "Control" (Zoe Wees song), 2020
* "Control", by Basement from Colourmeinkindness, 2012
* "Control", by the Black Dahlia Murder from Everblack, 2013
* "Control", by Delta Goodrem from Child of the Universe, 2012
* "Control", by Disclosure from The Face, 2012
* "Control", by División Minúscula, 2008
* "Control", by Doja Cat from Purrr!, 2014
* "Control", by Earshot from Two, 2004
* "Control", by Feder, 2018
* "Control", by Ghost9 from Now: Who We Are Facing, 2021
* "Control", by Halsey from Badlands, 2015
* "Control", by London Grammar from Truth Is a Beautiful Thing, 2017
* "Control", by Playboi Carti from Whole Lotta Red, 2020
* "Control", by Poe from Haunted, 2000
* "Control", by Stabbing Westward from Ungod, 1994
* "Control", by Wisin from El Regreso del Sobreviviente, 2014
* "Control (Somehow You Want Me)", by Tenth Avenue North from Followers, 2016