What is "controls"

Usage examples of "controls".

The control team was three men seated at controls, two in front on either side of a central console and one in the middle to supervise the other two.

The console controls the ballast tank vent and blowing system, the hovering system, and the trim system.

Computer system that controls a complicated process such as a nuclear propulsion plant.

A console in the maneuvering room that controls the electrical distribution of the ship including the turbine generators and the battery.

Control panel in the maneuvering room where the Reactor Operator controls the reactor.

SHIP CONTROL OFFICER Russian equivalent to a helmsman, except the watchstander is an officer directing a highly automated distributed control system that controls the motion of the ship.

Has the large throttle wheel in front that controls the speed of the main engines.

STERNPLANESMAN Enlisted watchstander in the Ship Control Party who controls the sternplanes at the Ship Control Panel.

Jones, the two were aggressive, rude, and sometimes even fought with him to take over the controls during their training flights.

They stop at ticket counters, gates, and exit controls at airports and seaports.

These, together with inadequate screening and access controls, continue to present aviation security challenges.

America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.

They wanted open-air meetings where the population could participate in making policy, more equitable taxes, price controls, and the election of mechanics and other ordinary people to government posts.

Revolutionary leader who opposed price controls and wanted a more conservative government than was given by the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.

Around them, tightly packed equipment---radarscopes, controls, radio communications panels---lined all four walls.