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controller

[kuhn-troh-ler]

noun

  1. an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.

  2. a person who regulates, directs, or restrains.

  3. British Aeronautics.a dispatcher.

  4. a regulating mechanism; governor.

  5. Also called control unit, processor.Computers.the key component of a device, as a terminal, printer, or external storage unit, that contains the circuitry necessary to interpret and execute instructions fed into the device.

  6. Digital Technology.a remote piece of hardware used to direct or control an electronic device.

    a video game controller.



controller

/ əˈٰəʊə /

noun

  1. a person who directs, regulates, or restrains

  2. Also called: comptroller.a business executive or government officer who is responsible for financial planning, control, etc

  3. the equipment concerned with controlling the operation of an electrical device

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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of controller1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English countrollour, from Anglo-French countrero(u)llour, Middle French contrerolleur, equivalent to contrerolle “duplicate roll” + -eur, -our, from Latin -ō- or -ō- noun suffixes; control, -or 2, -ator
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I’m eager, for one, to see how its controllers, the detachable “Joy-Cons,” evolve, as they now have the ability to act as a mouse.

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“I didn’t even know that non-air traffic controllers could get that award, and I was so proud,” she said.

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A spool of tens of kilometres of cable is fitted to the bottom of a drone and the physical fibre optic cord is attached to the controller held by the pilot.

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He also served as controller of BBC One and Two, and the organisation's creative director and head of music and arts during a long and varied career.

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The problems date back even further — at least to 1981, when Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers at a single blow to break their union.

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