Dictionary

controller en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/ (General-American)
• /kənˈtɹəʊlə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio

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.

Meanings

1. One who controls something.
   • The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. 1700, John Dryden, transl., The Wife of Bath, Her Tale:
2. Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
   • Nothing more can be squeezed out of the motive power unit once the master controller has been moved to full on. 1963 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 115:
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.
   • 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? 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
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)
   • 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. 2004, Paul K. Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, Cambridge University Press (hardback) (paperback), chapter 5.4, 117
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.

Forms

Deriveds

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

Hyponyms

microcontroller · game controller · nanocontroller · fuzzy controller · memory controller · model–view–controller

Relateds

control · control theory

Synonyms

administrator (one who controls) · comptroller (one who manages financial affairs) · chief (one who controls) · overseer (one who controls) · game controller · foreman (one who controls) · organizer (one who controls) · driver (device that regulates a machine's operation) · head man (one who controls) · head (one who controls) · superintendent (one who controls) · supervisor (one who controls)

Translations (110)

ru контро́ллер (electronics: device for controlling) · bg контро́лер (electronics: device for controlling) · hi नियंत्रक (person who controls something) · sw mdhibiti (person who controls something) · cs ovladač (person who controls something) · sl krmilnik (person who controls something) · it controllo (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · cs kontrolorka (person who controls something) · fr manette (the chief accountant of a company or government) · es control (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · pt controlador (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · ro controlor (the chief accountant of a company or government) · bg контрольо́р (person who controls something) · sk ovládač (person who controls something) · sw mdhibiti wa fedha (the chief accountant of a company or government) · pt tesoureiro (the chief accountant of a company or government) · fi padi (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · it controllore (the chief accountant of a company or government) · ga stiúrthóir (person who controls something) · uk контроле́р (person who controls something) · es contralor (the chief accountant of a company or government) · pl rewident (the chief accountant of a company or government) · sk kontrolór (person who controls something) · fi johtaja (person who controls something) · fi varainhoitaja (the chief accountant of a company or government) · cs kontrolor (person who controls something) · de Controller (the chief accountant of a company or government) · bg контро́лер (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · gd rianadair (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · el ελεγκτής (person who controls something) · nl controller (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · sv reglage (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · ru контролёр (person who controls something) · ro revizor (the chief accountant of a company or government) · ro controlor (person who controls something) · ro controler (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · de Aufseher (person who controls something) · es controladora (person who controls something) · hi लेखानियंत्रक (the chief accountant of a company or government) · ro controler (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · fi controller (the chief accountant of a company or government) · sk kontrolórka (person who controls something) · fi ajuri (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · ru контро́ллер (the chief accountant of a company or government) · fi pääkirjanpitäjä (the chief accountant of a company or government) · fr manette (electronics: device for controlling) · it controllore (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · el ελεγκτής (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · fr contrôleur (person who controls something) · el διευθυντής (the chief accountant of a company or government) · mi pūwhakamana (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · mi kaiwhakahaere (person who controls something) · pt controle (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · it controllore (person who controls something) · de Controller (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · es director administrativo (the chief accountant of a company or government) · es controlador (the chief accountant of a company or government) · es controlador (person who controls something) · pl kontroler (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · es interventor (the chief accountant of a company or government) · mk контроло́р (person who controls something) · de Regler (electronics: device for controlling) · fi peliohjain (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · ru контро́ллер (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · la moderātrix (person who controls something) · fr manette de jeu (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · fi kirjanpitopäällikkö (the chief accountant of a company or government) · fi talouspäällikkö (the chief accountant of a company or government) · fr contrôleur (the chief accountant of a company or government) · ro controlor (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · fi valvoja (person who controls something) · bg контро́лер (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · pt controlador (person who controls something) · ro controloare (person who controls something) · sh контро̀ло̄р (person who controls something) · gl mando (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · it revisore (the chief accountant of a company or government) · es director financiero (the chief accountant of a company or government) · eo regilo (electronics: device for controlling) · pl kontroler (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · la moderātor (person who controls something) · de Rechnungsprüfer (the chief accountant of a company or government) · fr manette (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · de Controller (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · be кантралёр (person who controls something) · ga ard-reachtaire (the chief accountant of a company or government) · sv styrekonom (the chief accountant of a company or government) · pt controle (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · it controller (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · de Kontrolleur (person who controls something) · pt auditor (the chief accountant of a company or government) · de Buchprüfer (the chief accountant of a company or government) · pt comando (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · es mando (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · de Regler (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · io chefkontrolisto (the chief accountant of a company or government) · ro regulator (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · fr contrôleuse (person who controls something) · ru контро́ллер (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · fi päällikkö (person who controls something) · cs řadič (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · sv controller (the chief accountant of a company or government) · de Steuerung (computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine) · fi pad-ohjain (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · fr contrôleur (electronics: device for controlling) · mr जॉय्पॅड (video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games) · pl kontroler (the chief accountant of a company or government) · pl kontroler (person who controls something) · sv kontrollant (person who controls something) · sh kontròlōr (person who controls something)