Meaning

9 senses
  1. One who controls something.

    a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine

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

    Regler

    контро́ллерkontróller

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

    Controller, Rechnungsprüfer, Buchprüfer

    контро́ллерkontróller

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

    Controller, Steuerung, Regler

    контро́ллерkontróller

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

    Controller

    контро́ллерkontróller

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

    Kontrolleur, Aufseher

    контролёрkontroljór

    контроле́рkontrolér

    a person who directs and restrains

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

  9. 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.

Examples

24 sentences
  1. I work as an air traffic controller.

    Я працюю авіадиспетчером.

    ruЯ работаю авиадиспетчером.

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  2. Tom is an air traffic controller.

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  3. The door is closed with the controller.

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  4. Air traffic controllers are under severe mental strain.

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  5. Air traffic controller is an extremely high pressure job.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person who controls something:
Русский
By meaning 2
electronics: device for controlling:
person who controls something:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
electronics: device for controlling:
the chief accountant of a company or government:
computer hardware: mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine:
person who controls something:

Origin

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contr

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). Doublet of comptroller. By surface analysis, control + -er.

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