Definitions for controller

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controller con·trol·ler

Spelling: [kuh n-troh-ler]

IPA: /kənˈtroʊ lər/

Controller is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 314 anagrams from letters in controller (cellnoorrt).

Definitions for controller

noun

1. an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
2. a person who regulates, directs, or restrains.
3. British Aeronautics. a dispatcher.
4. a regulating mechanism; governor.
5. Also called control unit, processor. Computers. the key component of a device, as a terminal, printer, or external storage unit, that contains the circuitry necessary to interpret and execute instructions fed into the device.
6. a remote piece of hardware used to direct or control an electronic device:

Origin of controller

1350-1400; Middle English countrollour Anglo-French countrero(u)llour, Middle French contrerolleur, equivalent to contrerolle duplicate roll (see control) + -eur,

Examples for controller

I can remember distinctly that my father was a controller, Third Class.

Whenever the motors kick in, a high-pitched whirring sound emanates from the controller, which is a major distraction.

The mind should not act as a director or controller of the spontaneous centers.

We speak of it as the master and controller of the body; but this is only partially true.

And bear in mind that I refuse to allow you to be the controller of it.

It started from an already-excellent template (the Xbox 360 controller) and improved on it in almost every way.

Your controller, however, vibrates heavily with each movement.

On the other hand, the Xbox One controller is nearly perfect.

He was the controller of a great journal: he was a leading politician.

A controller is the least effective way to control the game.