Look up: CONTROL

1. control
   (character) (Or 'ctrl', '^') One (or a pair) of modifier keys found on all modern keyboards. If the control key is held down while pressing and releasing certain other keys then a 'control character' is generated, e.g. holding control and hitting 'A' generates control-A (ASCII code 1). The ASCII c...
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2. Control
   Operations Control Office
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3. Control
   The USS Control was an American Admirable Class minesweeper of 625 tons displacement launched in 1943. The USS Control was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 14.5 knots and carried a complement of 104. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun and four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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4. Control
   50% of the outstanding votes plus one vote.
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5. Control
   Exerting actions to manipulate a system or environment in a goal-seeking manner.
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6. control
   Economic reduction of crop losses caused by plant diseases.
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7. Control
   The functions performed at a ground control center to operate space-based instruments, in conjunction with commanding.
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8. Control
   (a) In experimental parapsychology a procedure undertaken in order to ensure that the experiment is conducted in a standard fashion and so that results are not unduly influenced by extraneous factors. See also control group, artefact.
   (b) In spiritualism, a discarnate entity who communicates wit...
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9. Control
   In experiments; untreated subjects that affords a standard of comparison with those given crop protection treatment.
   (i) Legislative; the use of legislation to control the importation and to prevent any spread of a pest within a country.
   (ii) Physical; the use of mechanical (hand picking) and physical (heat, cold, radiation) methods of controlling pests.
   (iii) Cultural; regular farm operations designed to destroy pests.
   (iv) Chemical; the use of chemical pesticides as smokes, gas, dusts and sprays to poison pests.
   (v) Biological; the use of natural predators, parasites and disease organisms to reduce pest populations.
   (vi) Integrated; the very carefully reasoned use of several different methods of pest control in conjunction with each other to control pests with a minimum disturbance to the natural situation.
   Any of a number of factors that affect the rate of change of a state variable in a simulation model. These controls are usually exercised through functional relationships (equations) for process rates.
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10. Control
    (a) In experimental parapsychology a procedure undertaken in order to ensure that the experiment is conducted in a standard fashion and so that results are not unduly influenced by extraneous factors. See also control group, artefact. (b) In spiritualism, a discarnate entity who communicates with a...
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11. Control
    A system of points which are used as fixed references for positioning other surveyed features.
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12. control
    [n] - a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another 2. [n] - a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance 3. [n] - the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. 4. [n] - power to direct or d...
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13. Control
    holding constant all relevant variables except one in order to observe its effect
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14. Control
    One of the four Cs which involves the demonstration of commitment and leadership, supported by clear rules and procedures which are rigorously applied.
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15. Control
    In subscription promotion tests, the basic package against which other promotions are compared
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16. Control
    The treatment with which the drug being tested is compared – often placebo or a marketed drug.
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17. Control
    Processes employed to hold the conditions under which an investigation is carried out uniform or constant. In a true experimental design, the control group is the group that does not receive the intervention or treatment under investigation. The scores on the dependent variable for the control and ...
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18. Control
    A department of a railway organisation which makes decisions and directs the movement of trains and train workers.
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19. control
    the regulation and, more particularly, the limitation of plant, animal or virus populations by one or more factors; these factors may be a) natural locality factors, exercising natural control-whether biotic factors like pathogens, pests or predators (biotic control) or abiotic factors like climate ...
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20. Control
    Con·trol' noun [ French contrôle a counter register, contr. from contr- rôle ; contre (L. contra ) + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter and Roll , and confer Counterroll .] 1. A dupl...
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21. Control
    Con·trol' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Controlled ; present participle & verbal noun Controlling .] [ French contrôler , from contrôle .] [ Formerly writt...
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22. Control
    Con·trol' noun 1. (Machinery) The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight; specifically (Aëronautics) , the mechanism controlling the rudders and ailerons. 2. <...
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23. control
    In research, control subjects or control procedures permit comparison with experimental results. The first controlled clinical research was probably done in 1875 by the British naval surgeon James Lind who, on board the HMS Salisbury, gave sailors with scurvy either oranges or lemons or cider or vin...
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24. control
    controller noun a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine; `the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly`; `I turned the controls over to her`
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25. control
    noun the activity of managing or exerting control over something; `the control of the mob by the police was admirable`
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