controller vs determiner

controller

noun
  • The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field. 

  • An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. 

  • The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller. 

  • One who controls something. 

  • Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system. 

  • In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views. 

  • A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games. 

  • A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer. 

  • The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics) 

determiner

noun
  • Someone (a sentient agent) who determines; a decider of a disposition. 

  • A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. 

  • A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun. 

  • Something (some input factor, a nonsentient agent) that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else. 

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