…the power to influence or direct people’s behaviour or the course of events…
…a key which alters the function of another key if the two are pressed at the same time…
…a rod of a neutron-absorbing substance used to vary the output power of a nuclear reactor…
…international disarmament or arms limitation, especially by mutual consent…
…the practice of preventing unwanted pregnancies, especially by use of contraception…
…(of a danger or emergency) such that people are able to deal with it successfully…
…a person who feels an obsessive need to exercise control over themselves and others and to take command of any situation…
…a tall building at an airport from which the movements of air traffic are controlled…
…(of an aircraft or vehicle) having two sets of controls, one of which is used by the instructor…
…control of the pitch of a helicopter’s rotors or an aircraft’s propellers…
…a government regulation establishing a maximum price to be charged for specified goods and services, especially during periods of war or inflation…
…government control and regulation of the amounts charged for rented housing…
…the ability to control oneself, in particular one’s emotions and desires, especially in difficult situations…
…the regulation of the stock-in-trade of a company so that all items are available without delay but without tying up unnecessarily large sums of money…
…an account used to record the balances on a number of subsidiary accounts and to provide a cross-check on them…
…a device in a motor vehicle which can be switched on to maintain a selected constant speed without the use of the accelerator pedal…
…the personnel and equipment that monitor and direct the flight and landing of aircraft or spacecraft…
…(in South Africa during the apartheid era) the rigid limitation and control imposed upon the movement of black people into urban areas…
…a system of maintaining standards in manufactured products by testing a sample of the output against the specification…
…control of a machine or apparatus from a distance by means of radio or infrared signals transmitted from a device…
…the attempt to restrict ideas and impose opinions through censorship and the control of curricula in schools…
…the task of keeping a software system consisting of many versions and configurations well organized…
…the control of a pest by the introduction of a natural enemy or predator…
…a character that does not represent a printable character but serves to initiate a particular action…
…a governmental restriction on the movement of currency between countries…
…computer control of machine tools, where operations are directed by numerical data…
…the area of activity and number of functions, people, or things for which an individual or organization is responsible…
…the ground-based personnel and equipment concerned with controlling and monitoring air traffic within a particular area…
…a language enabling the user to define the tasks to be undertaken by the operating system…
…take into account (an extraneous factor that might affect the results of an experiment)…
…a feature of certain amplifier circuits which gives a constant output over a wide range of input levels…
…release (a commodity, market, etc.) from controls or restrictions…
…a device that controls an apparatus by means of radio or infrared signals…
