Thesaurus: controller

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1. n. One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
2. n. An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
3. n. 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. n. someone who maintains and audits business accounts
5. n. a person who directs and restrains
6. n. a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
7. 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. Dryden. 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.
8. An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controllingthe running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to dropinto hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
9. n:100 n someone who maintains and audits business accounts n a person who directs and restrains n a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine