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Control is the ability to purposefully direct, or suppress, change.
Control can also refer to:
Entertainment, sports and games
Literature
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, "Control" was the head of the Circus, a stand-in for MI-6, in the 1974 British spy novel by John le Carré. He is George Smiley's mentor and a master spy.
Film
- 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 based on the life of Joy Division front man Ian Curtis, referencing the song "She's Lost Control"
- In the sitcom (and related movies) Get Smart, "CONTROL" is the name of a secret American government counter-espionage agency
Music
- Control (GoodBooks album) a 2007 album by GoodBooks
- Control (Janet Jackson album), a 1986 album by Janet Jackson
- "Control" (Janet Jackson song), a 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", the first single from from Traci Lords' album 1000 Fires
- "She's Lost Control", a 1979 song by Joy Division
Television
- (Get Smart), CONTROL was the satirical secret American government counter-espionage agency, pitted against KAOS
- "Control" (House), an episode of the television series House
- Ctrl (web series), an American comedy web series produced by NBC
Games
- Control is a feature of a contract bridge hand.
- Control-bid is a bid in contract bridge that shows a control feature of a hand.
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
- Scientific control to isolate variables in experiments
- Self control, ability to control one's emotions and desires
- Locus of control, extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them
- Lorazepam, sold under the trade name Control
- Chlordiazepoxide, also sold under the trade name Control
Humanities
- Control (linguistics), the relation between a missing element of a subordinate clause and its co-referent in the matrix clause
See also
- Action (disambiguation)
- Control point (disambiguation)
- Controller (disambiguation)
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