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Webster 1913 Edition

Controller

Con-trol′ler

,
Noun.
[From
control
, v. t.: cf. F.
contrôleur
.]
1.
One who, or that which, controls or restraines; 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.
Dryden.
2.
An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
[More commonly written
controller
.]
3.
(Naut.)
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Controller

CONTROLLER

,
Noun.
1.
One who controls, or restrains; one that has the power or authority to govern or control.
The great controller of our fate deignd to be man, and lived in low estate.
2.
An officer appointed to keep a counter-register of accounts, or to oversee, control or verify the accounts of other officers; as in Great Britain, the controller of the hanaper, of the household, of the pipe, and of the pells. In the United States, the duty of the controller of the treasury is to superintend the adjustment and preservation of the public accounts; to examine all accounts settled by the auditor, and certify to the register the balances due thereon; to countersign all warrants drawn by the secretary of the treasury which shall be warranted by law; to report to he secretary the official forms of all papers to be issued in the different offices for collecting the public revenue, and the manner and form of keeping and stating the accounts of the persons employed in them, &c.

Definition 2024

controller

controller

English

Noun

controller ‎(plural controllers)

  1. One who controls something.
    • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden
      The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
  2. Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
  3. (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  4. (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  5. (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.
  6. (espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
  7. (linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
    • 2004, Paul K. Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521816238 (hardback), ISBN 0521016541 (paperback), chapter 5.4, 117:
      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.
  8. (software architecture) 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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Danish

Etymology

Borrowing from English controller.

Noun

controller c (singular definite controlleren, plural indefinite controllere or controllers)

  1. (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government, a comptroller, a controller.
  2. (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer, a controller.

Inflection

Etymology

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). Equivalent to control +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): kənˈtrəʊlə
  • Hyphenation: con‧trol‧ler

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