Word Type

Noun

The word "controller" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

control device

Derived Terms

TCON air traffic controller array controller bread-controller controllerless controllership data controller flight controller front controller pattern microcontroller motion controller nanocontroller network interface controller overcontroller pest controller programmable logic controller servocontroller subcontroller telecontroller thermocontroller turbo controller undercontroller video game controller

Etymologically Related To

control

Context

business computing electronics espionage linguistics nautical software architecture

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

actor bourgeois businessperson doer mechanism worker

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

fuzzy controller game controller memory controller microcontroller model–view–controller nanocontroller

Related Terms

control control theory

Related Terms

affair audit block bolt circuit company comptroller computer control control theory deck design pattern device electric financial government iron machine mechanical mechanism model model view controller operation peripheral regulate ship subject system view

Synonym Network

accountant administrator comptroller control driver restrainer

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.