controller

IPA: kʌntrˈoʊɫɝ

One who controls something.
(electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
(business) The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
(computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
(video games) A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
(nautical) 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.
(espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
(linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
(software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.

Examples of "controller" in Sentences

The game controller is the only reason I need XP at this point.
The controller is pretty, but the interface is kludgy and SLOW.
Carbon-14 dating PROVES that this controller is thousands of years old.
The City Controller is the auditor and chief accounting officer of the city.
Responding "yes" to three or more questions suggests that a controller is violating our emotional freedom.
I am not sure if this term controller chain has been defined in industry literature, but I sure feel the need for it.
But nevertheless, there needs to be a hierarchy in the chain of controllers (hence the term controller chain) with some ownership relation between them.
While the human behind the attacks intervenes to puzzle out what's wrong, the controller is alerting the IT department, and tracking down the attacker's location.
I do wish the system came with a second controller because what's the point in offering up multiplayer levels and gameplay if you're stuck with just one controller from the getgo.
There is also a function called config () for accessing our main config. php file. class Loader function controller ($controller, $function = NULL) if (! file_exists (APPPATH. 'controllers / '. $controller.