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Controller
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A lever controlling the speed of an engine; - applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile.
(2):
(n.) One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
(3):
(n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(n.) Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system;
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Controller'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/controller.html. 1828.
