Control

Control can refer to:

Management

• Controlling as a role in Management.
• Internal controls - policies and procedures implemented in an entity in order to ensure that actual activities conform to planned activities.

Science and Technology

• Control engineering, a discipline of modeling and controlling of systems.
• Control system, tech. for the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
• A control or widget, a component of graphical user interface
• A scientific control to isolate variables in experiments
• Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
• The Control key on a computer keyboard
• Argument control in linguistics
• In statistics, see controlling for a variable

Psychology

• Control freak

Music

• Control (Janet Jackson album), a 1986 album by Janet Jackson
• Control (Janet Jackson song), a 1986 song by Janet Jackson
• Control (Pedro the Lion album), a 2002 album by Pedro the Lion
• Control (Puddle of Mudd song), a 2001 song by Puddle of Mudd
• "Control," a song by Poe from her 2000 album Haunted

TV/Film

• Control - A 1987 film starring Burt Lancaster.
• Kontroll - A 2003 Hungarian movie (released as Control internationally).
• Control (2004) - A 2004 movie starring Ray Liotta.
• Control: The Ian Curtis Film - An upcoming movie about the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, directed by Anton Corbijn.
• CONTROL - A fictional secret U.S. government spy agency in the television series Get Smart.
• Control (Spanish TV show) - A program seen on Spanish-language network Univision.

Literature

• Control (novel), a 1982 novel by William Goldman
• Control, the fictional Head of British Intelligence in several of John le Carré's spy novels