controller

Meanings

Plural: controllers

Noun

• someone who maintains and audits business accounts
• a person who directs and restrains
• a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
  • "the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"
• 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.
• 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.

Synonyms

accountant, administrator, chief, comptroller, control, driver, foreman, game controller, head, head man, organizer, overseer, restrainer, superintendent, supervisor

Related Words

control, control theory