Controller vs Checker - What's the difference?
controller | checker |
One who controls something.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
(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.
One who checks something.
The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.
To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.
As nouns the difference between controller and checker
is that controller is one who controls something while checker is one who checks something or checker can be a playing piece in the game of checkers (british: draughts) or checker can be the fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree,.As a verb checker is
to mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.controller
English
Noun
(en noun)- The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
Synonyms
* administrator * foreman * chief, head, head man * comptroller * overseer * organizer * superintendent * supervisorDerived terms
* memory controller * microcontrollerchecker
English
Alternative forms
* chequerEtymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- ''There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.