controller

Definitions

1. noun

   One who controls something.

   Example

   • The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
   ≈administrator≈chief≈foreman≈head≈head man +4 more
2. noun

   Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.

   Example

   • Nothing more can be squeezed out of the motive power unit once the master controller has been moved to full on.
3. noun

   The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.

4. noun

   A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.

   ≈driver
5. noun

   A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.

   Example

   • 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?
   ≈game controller
6. noun

   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. noun

   The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.

8. noun

   The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)

9. noun

   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.