controller
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Noun (3)controllers
- someone who maintains and audits business accountsSynonyms: accountantcomptrollerType of businessperson, bourgeoisKinds cost accountant, chartered accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, certified public accountant, bean counter
- a person who directs and restrainsSynonyms: restrainerType of actor, doerKinds withholder, nazi, suppressor, subduer
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine“the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly”“I turned the controls over to her”Synonyms: controlType of mechanismKinds switch, regulator, handwheel, dial, joystick, valve, disk controller, governor, cruise control
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Translations
Noun person who controls something
- Spanish
- controlador
- French
- contrôleur
- German
- Kontrolleur
- Italian
- controllore
- Portuguese
- controlador
- Russian
- контролёр kontroljór
- Dutch
- controleur
- Polish
- kontroler
- Greek
- ελεγκτής elegktís
- Indonesian
- pengendali
4 more languages
- Hungarian
- ellenőr
- Portuguese (PT)
- controlador
- Romanian
- controlor
- Swahili
- mdhibiti
Noun the chief accountant of a company or government
- Spanish
- contralor
- French
- contrôleur financier
- Russian
- гла́вный бухга́лтер glávnyj buxgálter
- Polish
- kontroler
- Romanian
- controlor
- Swahili
- mdhibiti wa fedha
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: From control, v. t.: cf. F. contrôleur.
1. One who, or that which, controls or restrains; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
The great controller of our fate Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.— John Dryden
2. An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. [More commonly written controller.]
3. Nautical 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.
4. Electricity Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system; specif.: (a) An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in an automatic device for constant current regulation. (b) A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the current to, or shutting it off from, an electric motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway car.
5. Machinery A lever controlling the speed of an engine; — applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<hardware> Part of a computer, typically a separate circuit board, which allows the computer to use certain kinds of peripheral devices. A disk controller is used to connect hard disks and floppy disks, a network controller is used for Ethernet. Other controllers are: keyboard controller, interrupt controller and graphics controller.
(1998-03-16)