1. controller(n = noun.person) accountant, comptroller - someone who maintains and audits business accounts; Array
is a kind of bourgeois, businessperson
has particulars: auditor, bean counter, bookkeeper, certified public accountant, cpa, chartered accountant, cost accountant
Derived forms verb control6, noun controllership1
2. controller(n = noun.person) restrainer - a person who directs and restrains; Array
is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
has particulars: nazi, overcomer, subduer, surmounter, suppresser, suppressor, withholder
Derived forms verb control4, verb control1
3. controller(n = noun.artifact) control - a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine; "the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her"
is a kind of mechanism
has particulars: cruise control, dial, disk controller, governor, regulator, handwheel, joystick, regulator, electric switch, electrical switch, switch, valve
1. One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs. [1913 Webster]
"The great controller of our fate
Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate." [1913 Webster]
2. An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. [1913 Webster]
3. 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. [1913 Webster]
4. Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system; [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. A lever controlling the speed of an engine; -- applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
controller, n.
1 a person or thing that controls.
2 a person in charge of expenditure, esp. a steward or comptroller.
Derivative:
controllership n.
Etymology:
ME counterroller f. AF contrerollour (as CONTROL)