controller

1. n. One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs. Source: opted

2. n. An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

4. n. someone who maintains and audits business accounts Source: wordnet

5. n. a person who directs and restrains Source: wordnet

6. n. a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

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 Source: ecdict

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