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controller
/kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/
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What does controller mean?
noun
- One who controls something.
- Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
- The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
More meanings (6)
noun
- A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
- A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
- 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.
- The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
- The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/
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I study with care the passage wherein the clergyman appears as controller of the fate of crops.
He dares not calm his contumelious spirit, Nor cease to be an arrogant controller, Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times.
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To-day the real controller of inheritance is chance or caprice; now, in matters of legislation, chance and caprice cannot be accepted as guides.
It produced the "Virgin of the Sphere," Queen of Heaven, "Isiac Controller of the Zodiac," at the same time that it made her the mother of all mankind.
Every nomination must be in writing on the proper form, which may be obtained from the Controller of the Savings Bank Department, in London, to whom the nomination must be sent during the depositor's life-time.