English Explanatory Dictionary

controller

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who controls something.
  2. Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
  3. The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  4. A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  5. A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
  6. 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.
  7. The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
  8. The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
  9. 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.

Pronunciation

/kənˈtɹəʊlə/ /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/ en-us-controller.oga

Word forms

controller 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.

Synonyms

comptroller administrator chief foreman head head man organizer overseer superintendent supervisor driver game controller

Related words

control control theory

Derived words

air traffic controller array controller bread-controller controllerless controllership data controller flight controller front controller pattern microcontroller motion controller nanocontroller network interface controller overcontroller pest controller programmable logic controller servocontroller subcontroller TCON telecontroller thermocontroller turbo controller undercontroller video game controller
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