Control
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Control is used in a variety of contexts to express "mastery" or "proficiency": e.g. "Music students attending a master class are expected to have full control of basic skills such as rhythm and pitch".
Control may also refer to:
[edit] Management and finance
- Control (management): an element of management
- Control as an element of management accounting
- Internal control: a process implemented in an organization to help in achieving specific goals
- Comptroller (or controller): a senior financial officer in an organization
[edit] Science and technology
- Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests such as insects, weeds, and plant diseases
- Control engineering, a discipline of modeling and controlling of systems
- Control system, the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
- Widget (computing) (control or widget), a component of a graphical user interface
- Scientific control to isolate variables in experiments
- Control network, a set of reference-points of known geospatial coordinates
- Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
- Control key, on a computer keyboard
- Argument control, in linguistics
- Controlling for a variable, in statistics
- Control freak, in psychology
- Control, a brand name for the drug lorazepam
[edit] Popular culture
[edit] Film and television
- Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian movie (released as Control internationally)
- Control (2007 film), a movie about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, directed by Anton Corbijn
- CONTROL, a fictional secret U.S. government spy agency in the television series Get Smart
- "Control" (House episode), an episode of the American TV series House
- Control (1920 film), a UK comedy short by Frank Miller
- Control or Il Giorna prima, a 1987 made-for-TV movie starring Burt Lancaster
- Control (2004 film) Direct-to-video movie staring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez. A convict gets a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo behavior modification.
[edit] Music
- Control (Janet Jackson album), a 1986 album by Janet Jackson
- "Control" (Janet Jackson song), a song from the album above
- "Control" (Puddle of Mudd song), a 2001 song by Puddle of Mudd
- Control (Pedro the Lion album), a 2002 album by Pedro the Lion
- Control (GoodBooks album) a 2007 album by GoodBooks
- Control (Mute Math song) a 2004 song by Mute Math
[edit] See also
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