Noun

(countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over.

A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary variable is low or non-existent.

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.

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She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave.

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A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.

(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.

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(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.

Noun

(en noun)

An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

* 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""

Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?

* 2006 , Christian Neef, " Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,

At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm  

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The domain of a certain abstraction.

* 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",

One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.

(formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.

* 1874 , ,

And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.

* 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",

Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,