Control
The word control has a number of different meanings:
- Often control is directing influence.
- In psychology, and popular psychology understanding and slang, control is the attempt to impose excessive predictability and direction on others or on events, often associated with lack of trust or insecurity, especially in a parent/child, partnership, or boss/subordinate context. In this context the derogatory slang term control freak is sometimes used for extreme cases.
- In science, an experimental control is used to help isolate the effects of a single variable.
- Revision control and Flow control are business related methods to control the flow of editing or processing of information and documents.
- A control character is a non-printing character in computing.
- Quality control is a means of formalizing a process to ensure a consistent required quality of processing
- Control theory is a topic in engineering.
- Social control
- Control (album) is a 1986 album by Janet Jackson.
- Control (Pedro the Lion album) is also a 2002 album by Pedro the Lion.
- Control (musician) is a noise project of Thomas Garrison.
- Control (novel) is a 1982 novel by William Goldman.
- Control (movie) is a 2003 Hungarian movie ([1]).
- CONTROL is a fictional secret U.S. Government spy agency in the television series Get Smart.
- A control or widget is a user interface component in a graphical user interface such as a text box or a button.
- The legal concept of control.