CONTROLLER

Controller

In control theory, a controller is a device, historically using mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or electronic techniques often in combination, but more recently in the form of a microprocessor or computer, which monitors and physically alters the operating conditions of a given dynamical system.

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controller

Noun

  1. One who controls something.
  2. A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  3. A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  4. 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.


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