controls

noun

(countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.

Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.

The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.

(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.

(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.

A control group or control experiment.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.

(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.

(parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.

(cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.

verb

(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

(transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.

(transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.

(transitive, archaic) To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.

(transitive, obsolete) To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.

Roots

rotulustrol- · Latin · roll

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