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Arbiter vs Controller - What's the difference?

arbiter | controller | Synonyms |

Arbiter is a synonym of controller.


As nouns the difference between arbiter and controller

is that arbiter is a person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator while controller is one who controls something.

As a verb arbiter

is to act as arbiter.

arbiter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
  • * 1931 , William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local , page 495
    • In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
  • (with of) A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
    • Television and film, not ''Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
  • (electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.

    • Related terms

    () * arbitrable * arbitrage * arbitrary * arbitrate * arbitration * arbitrator * arbitress

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as arbiter.
  • * 2003 , Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French , page 116
    • Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.

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    controller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who controls something.
  • * (rfdate) (Dryden)
    • The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
  • (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  • (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  • (nautical) 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.

    • Synonyms

    * administrator * foreman * chief, head, head man * comptroller * overseer * organizer * superintendent * supervisor

    Derived terms

    * memory controller * microcontroller

    Related terms

    * control theory