controller

Noun
  1. Someone who maintains and audits business accounts (synset 109780826)
    is a type of: bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
    subtypes:
    • auditor - a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
    • bean counter - an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures
    • bookkeeper - someone who records the transactions of a business
    • certified public accountant, cpa - an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state
    • chartered accountant - a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter
    • cost accountant - a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
    same as: accountant, comptroller
  2. A person who directs and restrains (synset 110544727)
    is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
    subtypes:
    • nazi - derogatory term for a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc.
    • overcomer, subduer, surmounter - someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion
    • suppresser, suppressor - someone who suppresses
    • withholder - a person who restrains or checks or holds back
    same as: restrainer
  3. A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine (synset 103101611)
    "the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her"
    is a type of: mechanism - device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
    subtypes:
    • cruise control - control mechanism for keeping an automobile at a set speed
    • dial - the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
    • disk controller - (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive
    • governor, regulator - a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
    • handwheel - control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated
    • joystick - a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers
    • regulator - any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.
    • electric switch, electrical switch, switch - control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
    • valve - control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid
    same as: control

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