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Controller vs Conductor - What's the difference?

controller | conductor |

As nouns the difference between controller and conductor

is that controller is one who controls something while conductor is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.

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

    conductor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * conductour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  • * Dryden
  • Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
  • (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
  • A person who takes tickets on public transportation.
  • train conductor'''; tram '''conductor
  • Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
  • (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
  • * 1988 , F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
  • If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
  • A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  • (architecture) A leader.
  • Antonyms

    * non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)

    Derived terms

    * lightning conductor

    See also

    * ticket inspector ----