Control

Control may refer to:

Entertainment, sports and games

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 Traci Lords' album 1000 Fires

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, a feature of a contract bridge hand
• Control-bid, 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

Other

• Control (linguistics), the relation between a missing element of a subordinate clause and its co-referent in the matrix clause
• Control, head of the Circus in the 1974 British spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

See also

• Action (disambiguation)
• Control point (disambiguation)
• Controller (disambiguation)