controller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹəʊlə/
ipa: /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/
homophone: comptroller stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: controllers
Etymology: From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). Doublet of comptroller. By surface analysis, control + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
ref: 1700, John Dryden, transl., The Wife of Bath, Her Tale:
glosses: One who controls something.
examples: text: Nothing more can be squeezed out of the motive power unit once the master controller has been moved to full on.
ref: 1963 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 115:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
topics: business
glosses: The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
examples: text: I'm collecting player's names for a school project. You know, players just like you! That's right, you--the one holding the controller. Would you register your name, please?
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
topics: video-games
synonyms: game controller
glosses: A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
examples: text: The choice of controller is determined by the matrix verb. If, as in (30b) and (3la), the main verb does not subcategorize for an OBJ, then the controller is the matrix SUBJ. In this case the complement clause is interpreted as having the same subject as the main clause. If the main verb does take an OBJ, the controller is the matrix patient.
ref: 2004, Paul K. Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, Cambridge University Press (hardback) (paperback), chapter 5.4, 117
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
topics: architecture
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: 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.
Synonyms: sense: one who controls
word: administrator
sense: one who controls
word: chief
sense: one who controls
word: foreman
sense: one who controls
word: head
sense: one who controls
word: head man
sense: one who controls
word: organizer
sense: one who controls
word: overseer
sense: one who controls
word: superintendent
sense: one who controls
word: supervisor
sense: one who manages financial affairs
word: comptroller
sense: device that regulates a machine's operation
word: driver
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: fuzzy controller
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: memory controller
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: game controller
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: microcontroller
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: nanocontroller
topics: architecture
software
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: model–view–controller
Derived terms: alt: ATC
word: air traffic controller
word: array controller
word: bread-controller
word: controllerless
word: controllership
word: data controller
word: flight controller
word: front controller pattern
word: microcontroller
word: motion controller
word: nanocontroller
word: network interface controller
word: overcontroller
word: pest controller
word: programmable logic controller
word: servocontroller
word: subcontroller
word: TCON
word: telecontroller
word: thermocontroller
word: turbo controller
word: undercontroller
Related terms: control
control theory