Regulator vs Controller - What's the difference?
regulator | controller |
A device that controls or limits something.
A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law.
A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
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.
As nouns the difference between regulator and controller
is that regulator is a device that controls or limits something while controller is one who controls something.regulator
English
(wikipedia regulator)Noun
(en noun)- The voltage regulator stopped working and the resulting overload destroyed the device.
Derived terms
* voltage regulator * battery regulatorExternal links
* * * ----controller
English
Noun
(en noun)- The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.