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A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
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controller
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computing and especially in computer hardware , a controller is a chip , an expansion card , or a stand-alone device that interfaces with a peripheral device. This may be a link between two parts of a computer (for example a memory controller that manages ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Controller \Con*trol"ler\, n. [From control, v. t.: cf. F. contr[^o]leur.] 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who maintains and audits business accounts [syn: accountant , comptroller ] a person who directs and restrains [syn: restrainer ] a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine; "the speed control on his turntable was not working properly"; ...
Usage examples of controller.
The Controller had been told long ago to match development time to demand: when it had come to Cho it had been on a slow, slow schedule.
It was too late now to climb back to the proper glide path, but the Controller could sweat that one out.
But the German fighter controllers covering the Heligoland Bight area did not commit their main force of fighters too early and, when the combat wings of B-17s bound for both Hamburg and Hannover later approached the German coast, they were met by strong fighter opposition.
British government that the inks used in the public departments are obtained by public tender, in accordance with the conditions drawn up by the controller of H.
He only hoped that Ismene had managed to escape, he could sense the anger coming from his controller, perhaps she could free him.
He communicated with his controllers on Earth and Moon using a ten-watt optical laser, which gave him a data rate of twenty kilobits a second.
Chief Controller was caught between his cousin, Admiral Krantz, who also happened to be the brother-in-law of Ligen Wyat, and Klairon Farris, the beloved hero of half his supporters.
They know that morphs had even infiltrated the home of one of their most important Controllers -- Chapman.
He decided that the rogue controller was a megalomaniac, some demented genius who trapped unsuspecting prods in his illegal designs.
A single MiG got a radar contact off a retreating jamming aircraft and radioed Keflavik, only to learn from his ground controllers that nothing was on the scopes out to a range of three hundred kilometers.
So suffice it to say that when the gods you think of as Greater Gods, those Samas would call the Controllers, all put their minds to something, they could achieve it.
He turned to the controller, and demanded from it a report concerning the machine that was sent to extricate Chen Shizuoka from his house arrest.
This time it caused changes in the very structure of the chair as panels slid back and additional equipment swung up, locking in place with small, solid sounds: thrust levers, a sidestick controller, a sensors board, a weapons status display-all devices more appropriate to a single-seat fighter.
There was a device there, I saw it was made from two video game controllers, one with a couple small thumbwheels, another with a pistol grip.
Colin Moore, a JPL assistant mission controller at the time, had called him to invite him to his first meeting of the Transformationalist Circle.