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Control may refer to:
Management and finance
- Control (management), an element of management
- Control freak, a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done
- An element of management accounting
- Internal control, a process implemented in an organization to help in achieving specific goals
- Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization
- Foreign exchange controls, regulations on trade
Science and technology
- Argument control, in linguistics,a construction where the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by some expression in context
- Automatic control, the application of control theory for regulation of processes without direct human intervention
- Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests such as insects, weeds, and plant diseases
- Control engineering, a discipline of modeling and controlling of systems
- Control flow, the means of specifying the sequence of operations in computer programs
- Control key, on a computer keyboard
- Control network, a set of reference-points of known geospatial coordinates
- Control point (orienteering), a marked waypoint used in orienteering and related sports
- Control room, a room where a large physical facility can be monitored
- Control system, the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
- Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
- Controlling for a variable, in statistics
- GUI widget (control or widget), a component of a graphical user interface
- Locus of control, extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them
- Mind control, a process in which a group or individual systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others
- Security controls: safeguards & countermeasures against security risks
- Scientific control to isolate variables in experiments
- Self-control, ability to control one's emotions and desires
- Social control, societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behaviour in an attempt to gain conformity and compliance
- Lorazepam, sold under the trade name Control
- Chlordiazepoxide, also sold under the trade name Control
Arts and entertainment
Film
- Control (1987 film) or Il Giorna prima, a 1987 made-for-television film starring Burt Lancaster
- Control (2004 film), a direct-to-video film starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez
- Control (2005 film), an Australian short film written and directed by Jon Cohen
- Control (2007 film), a film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, directed by Anton Corbijn
- Control (2013 film), a Chinese-Hong Kong film written and directed by Kenneth Bi
- Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian film released as Control internationally
- Control, a UK comedy short by Frank Miller
Music
- Albums
- Control (GoodBooks album), 2007
- Control (Janet Jackson album), 1986
- Control (Pedro the Lion album), 2002
- Control, a 2011 album by Abandon
- Control, a 2014 album by The Brew
- Control, a 1981 album by Conrad Schnitzler
- Control, a 2013 EP by Disclosure
- Control, a 1994 album by Hellnation
- Control, a 2012 EP by The Indecent
- Control, a 1971 album by John St Field
- Control, a 2012 album by Uppermost
- Control, a 2003 album by Where Fear and Weapons Meet
- Songs
- "Control" (Big Sean song), 2013
- "Control" (Garbage song), 2012
- "Control" (Janet Jackson song), 1986
- "Control" (Kid Sister song), 2007
- "Control" (Matrix & Futurebound song), 2013
- "Control" (Metro Station song), 2007
- "Control" (Mutemath song), 2004
- "Control" (Poe song), 1998
- "Control" (Puddle of Mudd song), 2001
- "Control", the third single from Wisin' 2014 album El Regreso del Sobreviviente
- "Control", the first single from Traci Lords' 1995 album 1000 Fires
- "Control", a 2012 song by Delta Goodrem, from the album Child of the Universe
- "Control", a 2008 song by División Minúscula, from the album Sirenas
Television
- CONTROL (Get Smart), the satirical secret American government counter-espionage agency, pitted against KAOS
- Control (House), a 2005 episode of the television series House
- Ctrl (web series), an American comedy web series produced by NBC
- Control, a Spanish-language television series aired on Univision
- [C] - The Money of Soul And Possibility Control, an 2011 anime often shortened to [C] - Control
Other
- Control, a feature of a contract bridge hand
- Control-bid, a bid in contract bridge that shows a control feature of a hand
- Control (Starlight Express), a character from the rock musical Starlight Express
- Control (novel), a 1982 novel by William Goldman
- Control (fictional character), head of the Circus in the 1974 British spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Other
- Control (linguistics), the relation between a missing element of a subordinate clause and its co-referent in the matrix clause
- Power and control in abusive relationships, the way that abusers exert abuse to gain control within relationships
- Controlling interest, a large enough percentage of voting stock shares such that no one stock holder or coalition of stock holders can successfully oppose
See also
- Action (disambiguation)
- Control point (disambiguation)
- Control unit (disambiguation)
- Controller (disambiguation)
- Uncontrolled (disambiguation)
- Damage control (disambiguation)
- Control, Alberta