Control \Con*trol"\, n. [F. contr[^o]le a counter register, contr. fr. contr-r[^o]le; contre (L. contra) + r[^o]le roll, catalogue. See {Counter} and {Roll}, and cf. {Counterroll}.] 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] --Johnson.
2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. ``Speak without control.'' --Dryden.
3. Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. --Macaulay.
4. (Mach.) The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight; specifically (A["e]ronautics), the mechanism controlling the rudders and ailerons. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. (Climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6. (Technology) in research, an object or subject used in an experimental procedure, which is treated identically to the primary subject of the experiment, except for the omission of the specific treatment or conditions whose effect is being investigated. If the control is a group of living organisms, as is common in medical research, it is called the
{control group}.
Note: For most experimental procedures, the results are not considered valid and reliable unless a proper control experiment is performed. There are various types of control used in experimental science, and often several groups of subjects serve as controls, being subjected to different variations of the experimental procedure, or controlling for several variables being tested. When the effects caused by an experimental treatment are not consistent and obvious, statistical analysis of the results is typically used to determine if there are any significant differences between the effects of different experimental conditions. [PJC]
7. (Technology) the part of an experimental procedure in which the controls[6] are subjected to the experimental conditions. [PJC]
8. the group of technical specialists exercising control by remote communications over a distant operation, such as a space flight; as, the American Mission Control for manned flights is located in Houston. [PJC]
{Board of control}. See under {Board}.
Control \Con*trol"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Controlled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Controlling}.] [F. contr[^o]ler, fr. contr[^o]le.] [Formerly written {comptrol} and {controul}.] 1. To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute. [Obs.]
This report was controlled to be false. --Fuller.
2. To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a scepter to control the world. --Shak.
I feel my virtue struggling in my soul: But stronger passion does its power control. --Dryden.
3. to assure the validity of an experimental procedure by using a {control[7]}. [PJC]
They have been rallying by the hundreds of thousands to push for more control over Kosovo, an ancient Slav heartland bordering Albania that is now dominated by ethnic Albanians.
The Party has chosen to sacrifice economic growth in favor of tighter state control over people's daily lives.
Sect members won political control of the nearby community of Antelope, renaming it City of Rajneesh, and attempted to control voting in Wasco County by busing thousands of homeless people to the commune in 1984.
Sect members won political control of the nearby community of Antelope, renaming it City of Rajneesh, and attempted to control voting in Wasco County by busing thousands of homeless people to the commune in 1984.
"We must compel them (automakers) to retain all current workers unless their ability to survive is severely at risk as a result of conditions beyond their control," Bieber said in a speech to the convention.
He quietly raised $200,000 for a black voter registration drive in the South that was instrumental in returning the Senate to Democratic control that fall.
Many residents believe the problem in Sindh is beyond the government's control.
Some roughly similar constitutional issues arose, however, in cases in 1976 and 1984 involving challenges by landlords to rent control measures in Berkeley.
A few firefighters can knock down a small blaze that might be impossible to control if left alone, he noted.
General Cinema, which invested only $300 million in Carter Hawley when it rode in as an ally two years ago, will wind up with control of the specialty outlets while it escapes from the lower-profit department store game.
'A strong management would take control of the situation, but there's no one with the guts or the knowhow to do it,' says one Philharmonic insider.
Mr. Collor has recently suggested that employers and unions join together in a pact to keep wages and prices under control.
The airlines say the air-traffic control system is obsolete and understaffed.
Instead, they described it has a housecleaning measure agreed upon after Presser underwent a heart bypass operation in late 1983 to assure that control of the union remained with officials at its international headquarters in Washington.
Another fire in Everglades National Park, about 27 miles southwest of the city, scorched 10,500 acres by Friday. Firefighters expected to control it today, said park spokeswoman Darlene Koontz.
An agreement forged last month between the Czech, Slovak and federal governments keeps foreign policy, defense, general economic and monetary policy under federal control.
Tens of thousands of the colony's residents concerned about Communist control have sought permission to move out.
It recently won a $325 million contract to modernize Canada's air-traffic control system, and is bidding on a $210 million contract to modernize data processing for the Bureau of Land Management.
The battle for control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination enters its 11th year Tuesday, with moderates making an "11th hour" bid for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Defense Minister Abdul-Maguid Khalil told reporters that the situation has been brought under control.
And there are other indications the People's Front has little control over more radical elements pressing for reunification.
The Bryans control 71% of Media General's Class B shares, which elect a majority of directors.
The purpose of weapons control has not changed over the centuries.
De Benedetti, who spent some $1.7 billion to raise his Societe Generale holdings, claims he and his allies control 48 percent of the company.
Amal has charged that Hezbollah masterminded Higgins' abduction to undermine Amal's control of south Lebanon.
Bonn fringe benefits are already kept under relatively tight control.
If trusts for which they are trustees or income beneficiaries are included, they control roughly 47%, according to company documents and information from Mrs. Fink.
President Sarney's chief of staff resigned to assume control of Brazil's conservative Liberal Front Party.
The new system is to be introduced in 1992 when it is scheduled to be installed at the FAA's air traffic control center in Seattle.
The flurry of strategic steps began in April 1987, when a consortium led by the Swedish concern won control of France's state-owned Cie.