Noun: controller kun'trów-lu(r)
- A person who directs and restrains
"She was the controller of the company's finances";
- restrainer
- Someone who maintains and audits business accounts
"The controller discovered discrepancies in the quarterly reports";
- accountant, comptroller
- A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
"the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly";
- control
Derived forms: controllers
Type of: actor, bourgeois, businessperson, doer, mechanism, worker
Encyclopedia: Controller, BBC Radio 4