controller

Meaning

1. One who controls something.
2. Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
3. The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
4. A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
5. A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
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.
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.

Synonyms

comptroller

supervisor

regulator

chief financial officer

inspector

checker

director

management accountant

control

financial controller

manager

government comptroller

boss

superintendent

chief

accountant

control unit

governor

restrainer

coach

overseer

manipulator

administrator

steerer

surveyor

ticket collector

jockey

leader

prober

promoter

replenisher

repressor

ruler

stage director

starter

supervising

turnkey

wardenship

warder

wardship

wise man

accommodator

execuor

remonstrator

automatic regulator

cont

sub-duer

tally clerk

control device

financial director

Translations

contrôleur

Controller

controllore

controlador

controlador

opzichter

ελεγκτής

Regler

controller

Steuereinheit

supervisor

controlador

Kontroller

controleur

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kənˈtɹəʊlə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: countreroller

Cognate with French: contrôleur

In summary

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.