Control
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Control may refer to:
Management and finance
- Control (management), an element of management
- Control freak, a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done
- 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
- Foreign exchange controls, regulations on trade
Science and technology
- Argument control, in linguistics
- 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 flow, the means of specifying the sequence of operations in computer programs
- Control key, on a computer keyboard
- Control network, a set of reference-points of known geospatial coordinates
- Control point (orienteering)
- Control system, the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
- Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
- Controlling for a variable, in statistics
- GUI widget (control or widget), a component of a graphical user interface
- Locus of control, extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them
- Mind control, a process in which a group or individual systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others
- Scientific control to isolate variables in experiments
- Self-control, ability to control one's emotions and desires
- Social control, societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behaviour in an attempt to gain conformity and compliance
- Lorazepam, sold under the trade name Control
- Chlordiazepoxide, also sold under the trade name Control
Other
- Control (linguistics), the relation between a missing element of a subordinate clause and its co-referent in the matrix clause
- Control (fictional character), head of the Circus in the 1974 British spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Arts and entertainment
Film
- Control (1920 film), a UK comedy short by Frank Miller
- Control (1987 film) or Il Giorna prima, a 1987 made-for-television film starring Burt Lancaster
- Control (2004 film), a direct-to-video film starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez
- Control (2005 film), an Australian short film written and directed by Jon Cohen
- Control (2007 film), a film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, directed by Anton Corbijn
- Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian film released as Control internationally
Music
- Control (GoodBooks album) a 2007 album by GoodBooks
- Control (Janet Jackson album), a 1986 album by Janet Jackson
- "Control" (Janet Jackson song), a 1986 song from the above album
- "Control" (Metro Station song), a 2007 song by Metro Station
- "Control" (Mutemath song) a 2004 song by Mutemath
- Control (Pedro the Lion album), a 2002 album by Pedro the Lion
- "Control" (Puddle of Mudd song), a 2001 song by Puddle of Mudd
- "Control" (Poe song), 1998
- "Control" (Kid Sister song), 2007
- "Control", the first single from Traci Lords' album 1000 Fires
- "Control", a 2012 song by Garbage, from the album, Not Your Kind of People
- "Control", a 2012 song by Delta Goodrem, from the album, Child of the Universe
Television
- CONTROL (Get Smart), the satirical secret American government counter-espionage agency, pitted against KAOS
- "Control" (House), a 2005 episode of the television series House
- Ctrl (web series), an American comedy web series produced by NBC
- Control (TV series), a Spanish-language television series aired on Univision
- [C] - The Money of Soul And Possibility Control, an 2011 anime often shortened to [C] - Control
Other
- Control, a feature of a contract bridge hand
- Control-bid, a bid in contract bridge that shows a control feature of a hand
- Control (Starlight Express), a character from the rock musical Starlight Express
- Control (novel), a 1982 novel by William Goldman
See also
- Action (disambiguation)
- Control point (disambiguation)
- Control unit (disambiguation)
- Controller (disambiguation)
- Uncontrolled (disambiguation)
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