Control

Control may refer to:

Basic meanings

Economics and business

• Control (management), an element of management
• Control, an element of management accounting
• Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization
• Controlling interest, a percentage of voting stock shares sufficient to prevent opposition
• Foreign exchange controls, regulations on trade
• Internal control, a process to help achieve specific goals typically related to managing risk

Mathematics and science

• Control (optimal control theory), a variable for steering a controllable system of state variables toward a desired goal
• Controlling for a variable in statistics
• Scientific control, an experiment in which "confounding variables" are minimised to reduce error
• Control variables, variables which are kept constant during an experiment
• Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests
• Control network in geodesy and surveying, a set of reference points of known geospatial coordinates
• Control room, a room where a physical facility can be monitored
• Process control in continuous production processes
• Security controls, safeguards against security risks

Medicine

• Control, according to the ICD-10-PCS, in the Medical and Surgical Section (0), is the root operation (# 3) that means stopping, or attempting to stop, post-procedural bleeding
• Chlordiazepoxide, also sold under the trade name Control
• Lorazepam, sold under the trade name Control

Systems engineering, computing and technology

• Automatic control, the application of control theory for regulation of processes without direct intervention
• Control character, or non-printing character, in a character set; does not represent a written symbol, but is used to control the interpretation or display of text
• Unicode control characters, characters with no visual or spatial representation
• Control engineering, a discipline of modeling and controlling of systems
• Control system, the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
• Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
• Control flow, means of specifying the sequence of operations in computer programs
• Control variables in programming, which regulate the flow of control
• Control key, on a computer keyboard
• GUI widget (control or widget), a component of a graphical user interface
• Input device (control), a physical user interface to a computer system

Society, psychology and sociology

• Control (psychology)
• Control freak, a person who attempts to dictate
• Controlling behavior in relationships (also called coercive control)
• Locus of control, an extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them
• Mind control, the use of manipulative methods to persuade others (brainwashing)
• Power (social and political), the ability to control others
• Self-control, the ability to control one's emotions and desires
• Social control, mechanisms that regulate social behavior
• Civilian control of the military

Other basic uses

• Control point (orienteering), a marked waypoint in orienteering and related sports
• Control (linguistics), a relation between elements of two clauses

Geography

• Control, Alberta

Media

Books

• Control (novel), a 1982 novel by William Goldman
• Control (fictional character), in the 1974 British spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Film and TV

Films

• Control (1987 film) or , a 1987 made-for-television film starring Burt Lancaster
• Control (2004 film), starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez
• Control (2007 film), a film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, directed by Anton Corbijn
• Control (2013 film), a Chinese–Hong Kong film written and directed by Kenneth Bi
• Control (2023 film), a British film directed by Gene Fallaize and featuring the voice of Kevin Spacey
• Control (upcoming film), directed by Robert Schwentke and starring James McAvoy
• Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian film, released as Control internationally
• Control, a UK comedy short by Frank Miller

TV

• Control (House), a 2005 episode of the television series House
• Control, a Spanish-language series aired on Univision
• Control, a recurring character in the sketch programme A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• Control, a character on the science fiction crime drama Person of Interest
• [C] - The Money of Soul And Possibility Control, or [C] - Control, a 2011 anime
• Ctrl (web series), an American comedy web series
• CONTROL (Get Smart), a fictional counter-espionage agency

Games

• Control and control-bid, features of the game contract bridge
• Control (video game), a 2019 video game by Remedy Entertainment

Music

• Kontrol - a Bulgarian punk band
• Control (Starlight Express), a character from the rock musical

Albums

• Control (GoodBooks album), 2007
• Control (Janet Jackson album), 1986
• Control (Pedro the Lion album), 2002
• Control, a 2011 album by Abandon
• Control, a 2014 album by The Brew
• Control, a 1981 album by Conrad Schnitzler
• Control, a 2013 EP by Disclosure
• Control, a 1994 album by Hellnation
• Control, a 2012 EP by The Indecent
• Control, a 1971 album by John St Field
• Control, a 2012 album by Uppermost
• Control, a 2003 album by Where Fear and Weapons Meet
• Ctrl (SZA album), 2017

Songs

• "Control" (Big Sean song), 2013
• "Control" (Garbage song), 2012
• "Control" (Janet Jackson song), 1986
• "Control" (Kid Sister song), 2007
• "Control" (Matrix & Futurebound song), 2013
• "Control" (Metro Station song), 2007
• "Control" (Mutemath song), 2004
• "Control" (Poe song), 1998
• "Control" (Puddle of Mudd song), 2001
• "Control" (Traci Lords song), 1994
• "Control" (Zoe Wees song), 2020
• "Control", by Ayra Starr from The Year I Turned 21, 2024
• "Control", by Amyl and the Sniffers from Amyl and the Sniffers, 2019
• "Control", by Basement from Colourmeinkindness, 2012
• "Control", by the Black Dahlia Murder from Everblack, 2013
• "Control", by Delta Goodrem from Child of the Universe, 2012
• "Control", by Disclosure from The Face, 2012
• "Control", by División Minúscula, 2008
• "Control", by Doja Cat from Purrr!, 2014
• "Control", by Earshot from Two, 2004
• "Control", by Feder, 2018
• "Control", by Ghost9 from Now: Who We Are Facing, 2021
• "Control", by Halsey from Badlands, 2015
• "Control", by London Grammar from Truth Is a Beautiful Thing, 2017
• "Control", by Playboi Carti from Whole Lotta Red, 2020
• "Control", by Poe from Haunted, 2000
• "Control", by Stabbing Westward from Ungod, 1994
• "Control", by Wisin from El Regreso del Sobreviviente, 2014
• "Control (Somehow You Want Me)", by Tenth Avenue North from Followers, 2016

See also

• Action (disambiguation)
• Control point (disambiguation)
• Control unit (disambiguation)
• Controller (disambiguation)
• Damage control (disambiguation)
• Uncontrolled (disambiguation)