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1.nounOne who controls something.
2.nounAny electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
3.nounA person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
4.nounA mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
5.nounAn 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.
6.nounThe person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
7.nounThe subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
8.nounIn 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.