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Control is used in a variety of contexts to express "mastery" or "proficiency": e.g. "Music students attending a master class are expected to have full control of basic skills such as rhythm and pitch" and more generally an ability to purposefully direct (including suppression of) change.
Control may also refer to:
[edit] Popular culture
- A 2004 direct-to-video Control (2004 film), starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez.
- A Control (2007 film) based on the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, referencing the song "She's Lost Control" by the band
- In the sitcom (and related movies) "Get Smart," CONTROL is the name of a secret American government counter-espionage agency.
[edit] Management and finance
[edit] 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 freak, in folk psychology
- 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
- Control, a brand name for the drug lorazepam
[edit] See also