controller

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Etymology

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

Noun

controller (plural controllers)

1. One who controls something.
   • (Can we date this quote?) {{w:Dryden}}

     The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.

2. A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
3. A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
4. (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.

Synonyms

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• administrator
• foreman
• chief, head, head man
• comptroller
• overseer
• organizer
• superintendent
• supervisor

Derived terms

• memory controller
• microcontroller

Related terms

• control theory

Translations

person who controls something

• Finnish: johtaja (fi), päällikkö (fi), valvoja (fi)
• French: contrôleur (fr) m, contrôleuse (fr) f
• German: Controller (de) m, Aufseher (de) m
• Greek: ελεγκτής (el) (elegktís) m
• Irish: stiúrthóir (ga) m

• Italian: controllore (it) m
• Polish: kontroler (pl) m
• Russian: контролёр (ru) (kontroljór) m
• Serbo-Croatian: контролор (sh) (kontrolor) m

comptroller

• Finnish: kirjanpitopäällikkö, talouspäällikkö, controller (fi), pääkirjanpitäjä (fi), varainhoitaja (fi)
• Greek: διευθυντής (el) (diefthintís) m

• Italian: revisore (it) m
• Russian: контроллер (ru) (kontróller) m

mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine

• Czech: řadič (cs) m
• Finnish: ohjain (fi), säädin (fi)
• German: Controller (de) m, Steuerung (de) f
• Greek: ελεγκτής (el) (elegktís) m

• Italian: controllo (it) m
• Polish: kontroler (pl) m
• Russian: контроллер (ru) (kontróller) m
• Scottish Gaelic: rianadair (gd) m

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Translations to be checked

• French: contrôleur
• Hebrew: בקר m
• Spanish: controlador
• Portuguese: controlador