Influence or authority over something.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box (abbreviated Ctrl).
A control group or control experiment.
A checkpoint along an audax route.
A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
(construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
to hold in check, to curb, to restrain
To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
The ability to affect or influence.
Physical force or strength.
Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
The ability to do or undergo something.
An influential nation, company, or other such body.
Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
Cardinality.
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
Electricity or a supply of electricity.
Impressive.
To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
To hit or kick something forcefully.
To enable or provide the impetus for.