A comptroller is someone who is in charge of the accounts of a business or a government department; used mainly in official titles. Robert Clarke, US Comptroller of the Currency. an official title for a controller
{i} controller, person in a business or company who is responsible for checking and handling financial matters (such as expenditures, etc.), chief accountant of a company, person in charge of the accounting activities in a company (Finance)
a circuit that acts as an interface between the computer and a device such as a disk drive The controller will pass information back and forth between the computer and the device and will generate specialized control signals needed to operate the device
A controller is a person who has responsibility for a particular organization or for a particular part of an organization. the job of controller of BBC
uci Any device used to position the cursor on the computer monitor screen (Examples are: mouse, joystick, cursor keys, light pen, touch screen, track ball ) [MIL-HDBK-1908B]
a device that inputs MIDI information (MIDI keyboard, wind controller, etc ) Some controllers are "soundless" and need to go thru some other MIDI device to generate a specific timbre
A device that controls the transfer of data from a computer to a peripheral device and vice versa For example, disk drives, display screens, keyboards, and printers all require controllers In personal computers, the controllers are often single chips When you purchase a computer, it comes with all the necessary controllers for standard components, such as the display screen, keyboard, and disk drives If you attach additional devices, however, you may need to insert new controllers that come on expansion boards Controllers must be designed to communicate with the computer's expansion bus There are three standard bus architectures for PCs -- the AT bus, PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect), and SCSI When you purchase a controller, therefore, you must ensure that it conforms to the bus architecture that your computer uses
The component or device that remotely operates the changer (e g , A great feature for an in-dash installed deck is the changer/controller function so that the trunk installed changer can be remotely accessed )
(1) Most often, it means the instrument: keyboard, guitar, drums (As in Master Controller ) (2) A second meaning, in sequencing, refers to a setting, a parameter, such as Controller 7 = Volume In this sense, a controller is a MIDI event
A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the current to, or shutting it off from, an electric motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway car
(1) Any device -- for example, a keyboard, wind synth controller, or pitch-bend lever -- capable of producing a change in some aspect of a sound by altering the action of some other device (2) Any of the defined MIDI data types used for controlling the ongoing quality of a sustaining tone Strictly speaking, MIDI continuous controllers are numbered from 0 to 122; in many synthesizers, the controller data category is more loosely defined to include pitch-bend and aftertouch data
A device which measures some parameter of an aquarium, and then switches on and off another device to affect the aquarium Typical controllers include redox, and pH
An electronic device attached to a kiln Controllers are usually capable of firing a kiln to a specific schedule and can shut it off at the right time, soak it for a specified period, and cool it down at a controlled rate
In an automated radio, the device that commands the radio transmitter and receiver, and that performs processes, such as automatic link establishment, channel scanning and selection, link quality analysis, polling, sounding, message store and forward, address protection, and anti-spoofing
Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system; An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in an automatic device for constant current regulation
A microprocessor based circuit board that manages access to a secure area The controller receives information that it uses to determine through which doors and at what times cardholders are granted access to secure areas Based on that information, the controller can lock/unlock doors, sound alarms, and communicate status to a host computer
{i} inspector, supervisor; comptroller, person in a business or company who is responsible for checking and handling financial matters (such as expenditures, etc.), chief accountant of a company, person in charge of the accounting activities in a company (Finance); one who is in control; hardware device that manages a particular physical device (Computers)
1) In MIDI, a device that generates a MIDI signal to control synthesizers, sound modules or sample playback units 2) A remote control unit for a multitrack tape machine which controls transport functions as well as monitor selection switching functions and record ready/safe status of each track 3) Any device generating a control voltage or signal fed to another device's control input
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine; "the speed control on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her"