controlled

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɹəʊld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɹoʊld/

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Adjective

controlled (comparative more controlled, superlative most controlled)

1. Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
2. (medicine, sciences, research) Resulting from a comparison with control samples; including a comparison (control) group. (describing clinical trials)

   A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).

3. (in combination) Under the control of the specified entity.
   • 1973, Noel Pitts Gist, Roy Dean Wright, Marginality and Identity, page 150:

     The history of the Anglo-Indian Community in British-controlled India is one of many ups and downs, of vicissitudes and prosperity, of security and insecurity.

Hyponyms

• climate-controlled

 

Derived terms

• controlled-access highway
• controlled atmosphere
• controlled burn
• controlled chaos
• controlled drug
• controlled explosion
• controlled flight into terrain
• controlled substance
• controlled vocabulary
• non-controlled
• placebo-controlled
• radio-controlled
• radio-controlled car
• rent-controlled
• self-controlled
• silicon-controlled rectifier
• thought-controlled
• voluntary controlled school

 

Translations

inhibited or restrained in one's words or actions

• Arabic: مُسيطر عليه
• Finnish: hillitty (fi), hallittu (fi)
• Latin: moderātus
• Romanian: controlat (ro)

resulting from a comparison

• Arabic: مُنظبط
• Finnish: tarkastettu (fi), kontrolloitu, ohjattu (fi), hallittu (fi); hallitsema
• French: contrôlé (fr)
• German: kontrolliert (de)
• Hungarian: kontrollált
• Italian: controllato (it)
• Portuguese: controlado (pt)
• Romanian: controlat (ro)
• Spanish: controlado (es)

Under the control of the specified entity

• Arabic: خاضع
• German: beherrscht (de), kontrolliert (de)

Verb

controlled

1. simple past and past participle of control

Derived terms

• remote-controlled