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/kəntrˈoʊlər/ Listen

noun

Controller n.

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."

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.

4.

(Elec.) Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system; specif.:

(a)

An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in an automatic device for constant current regulation.

(b)

A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the current to, or shutting it off from, an electric motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway car.

5.

(Mach.) A lever controlling the speed of an engine; applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Controller" Quotes from Famous Books

... procured vast sums of money for the Emperor, and even larger sums, which he kept privately for himself; and this practice, begun by him, continued. The grand treasurer is at this moment avowedly the only silk merchant and sole controller of the market. All those who formerly carried on this business, either in Byzantium or any other city, workers on sea or land, felt the loss severely. Nearly the whole population of the cities which existed by ...

— The Secret History of the Court of Justinian • Procopius

... conscious; it is not the substitute for instinct and habit; it is the guide and controller of both. When we act thoughtfully and intelligently, we are doing things not because we have done them that way in the past, or because it is the first response that occurs to us, but because, in the light of analysis, that way will bring about ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... copy of the Memoires concernant les Impositions, which he quotes so often in the Wealth of Nations. This book was not printed when he was in France, and as it needed much influence to get a copy of it, his was most probably got after Turgot became Controller-General of the Finances in 1774. But in any case it would involve ...

— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae

... was to place a civilian in charge of naval material generally and of all shipbuilding, both naval and mercantile. Up to the spring of 1916 mercantile shipbuilding had been carried out under the supervision of the Board of Trade, but when the office of Shipping Controller was instituted this work had been placed under that Minister, who was assisted by a committee of shipbuilders termed the "Shipbuilding Advisory Committee." Statistics show that good results as regards mercantile ship production were not ...

— The Crisis of the Naval War • John Rushworth Jellicoe

... descended the stairs, and never paused till he reached the buttery. Here he called like a lion for the controller of these regions, by the various names of Kammerer, Keller-master, and so forth, to which the old Reinold, an ancient Norman esquire, answered not, until the Netherlander fortunately recollected his Anglo-Norman title of butler. This, his regular ...

— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott

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