controller

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɹəʊlə/
• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/
• Hyphenation: con‧trol‧ler
• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

Noun

controller (plural controllers)

1. One who controls something.
   • 1700, John Dryden (tr.), “The Wife of Bath, Her Tale”[1]:

     The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.

2. (electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
3. (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
4. (computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
5. (nautical) 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.
6. (espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
7. (linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
   • 2004, Paul K. Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN (hardback), →ISBN (paperback), chapter 5.4, 117:

     The choice of controller is determined by the matrix verb. If, as in (30b) and (3la), the main verb does not subcategorize for an OBJ, then the controller is the matrix SUBJ. In this case the complement clause is interpreted as having the same subject as the main clause. If the main verb does take an OBJ, the controller is the matrix patient.

8. (software architecture) 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

• (one who controls): administrator, chief, foreman, head, head man, organizer, overseer, superintendent, supervisor
• (one who manages financial affairs): comptroller
• (device that regulates a machine's operation): driver

Hyponyms

• (computing): fuzzy controller, memory controller
• (computing, electronics): game controller, microcontroller, nanocontroller
• (software architecture): model–view–controller

Derived terms

• microcontroller
• nanocontroller
• TCON

 

Related terms

• control theory

Translations

person who controls something

• Finnish: johtaja (fi), päällikkö (fi), valvoja (fi)
• French: contrôleur (fr) m, contrôleuse (fr) f
• German: Controller m, Aufseher (de) m
• Greek: ελεγκτής (el) m (elegktís)
• Irish: stiúrthóir m
• Italian: controllore (it) m
• Latin: moderātor m, moderātrix f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kaiwhakahaere
• Polish: kontroler (pl) m
• Portuguese: controlador (pt) m
• Romanian: controlor (ro) m, controloare (ro) f
• Russian: контролёр (ru) m (kontroljór)
• Serbo-Croatian: контролор m (kontrolor)
• Swedish: kontrollant (sv) c

comptroller

• Finnish: kirjanpitopäällikkö, talouspäällikkö, controller (fi), pääkirjanpitäjä (fi), varainhoitaja
• French: manette (fr) f, ^{(please verify)} contrôleur (fr)
• Greek: διευθυντής (el) m (diefthyntís)
• Italian: revisore (it) m
• Portuguese: auditor (pt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: controlor (ro) m, revizor (ro) m
• Russian: контро́ллер (ru) m (kontróller)
• Spanish: mando (es) m
• Swedish: controller (sv) c

mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine

• Czech: řadič m
• Finnish: ohjain (fi), säädin (fi)
• French: ^{(please verify)} contrôleur (fr)
• German: Controller m, Steuerung (de) f, Regler (de) m
• Greek: ελεγκτής (el) m (elegktís)
• Italian: controllo (it) m
• Maori: pūwhakamana
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: kontroler (pl) m
• Portuguese: controlador (pt) m, controle (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: controler (ro) n, controlor (ro) n
• Russian: контро́ллер (ru) m (kontróller)
• Scottish Gaelic: rianadair m
• Swedish: reglage (sv) n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} בקר (he) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} controlador (es)

References

• controller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English controller.

Noun

controller c (singular definite controlleren, plural indefinite controllere or controllers)

1. (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government, a comptroller, a controller.
2. (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer, a controller.

Inflection

Declension of controller

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	controller	controlleren	controllere controllers	controllerne
genitive	controllers	controllerens	controlleres controllers'	controllernes