Control

Economics and business

• Control (management), an element of management
• Control, an element of management accounting
• Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization
• Controlling interest, a percentage of voting stock shares sufficient to prevent opposition
• Foreign exchange controls, regulations on trade
• Internal control, a process to help achieve specific goals typically related to managing risk

Mathematics and science

• Control (optimal control theory), a variable for steering a controllable system of state variables toward a desired goal
• Controlling for a variable in statistics
• Scientific control, an experiment in which "confounding variables" are minimised to reduce error
• Control variables, variables which are kept constant during an experiment
• Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests
• Control network in geodesy and surveying, a set of reference points of known geospatial coordinates
• Control room, a room where a physical facility can be monitored
• Process control in continuous production processes
• Security controls, safeguards against security risks

Medicine

• Control, according to the ICD-10-PCS, in the Medical and Surgical Section (0), is the root operation (# 3) that means stopping, or attempting to stop, post-procedural bleeding
  • Chlordiazepoxide, also sold under the trade name Control
  • Lorazepam, sold under the trade name Control

Systems engineering, computing and technology

• Automatic control, the application of control theory for regulation of processes without direct intervention
• Control character, or non-printing character, in a character set; does not represent a written symbol, but is used to control the interpretation or display of text
  • Unicode control characters, characters with no visual or spatial representation
• Control engineering, a discipline of modeling and controlling of systems
• Control system, the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
• Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
• Control flow, means of specifying the sequence of operations in computer programs
• Control variables in programming, which regulate the flow of control
• Control key on a computer keyboard
• GUI widget (control or widget), a component of a graphical user interface
• Input device (control), a physical user interface to a computer system

Society, psychology and sociology

• Control (psychology)
• Control freak, a person who attempts to dictate
• Controlling behavior in relationships (also called coercive control)
• Locus of control, an extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them
• Mind control, the use of manipulative methods to persuade others (brainwashing)
• Power (social and political), the ability to control others
• Self-control, the ability to control one's emotions and desires
• Social control, mechanisms that regulate social behavior
• Civilian control of the military

Other basic uses

• Control point (orienteering), a marked waypoint in orienteering and related sports
• Control (linguistics), a relation between elements of two clauses

Books

• Control (novel), 1982, by William Goldman
• Control (fictional character), in the 1974 British spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Films

• Control (1987 film) or Il Giorno prima, a 1987 made-for-television film starring Burt Lancaster
• Control (2004 film), starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez
• Control (2007 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
• Control (2023 film), a British film directed by Gene Fallaize and featuring the voice of Kevin Spacey
• Control (upcoming film), directed by Robert Schwentke and starring James McAvoy
• Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian film, released as Control internationally
• Control, a UK comedy short by Frank Miller

Television

• Control (House), a 2005 episode of the television series House
• Control, a Spanish-language series aired on Univision
• Control, a recurring character in the sketch programme A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• Control, a character on the science fiction crime drama Person of Interest
• [C] - The Money of Soul And Possibility Control, or [C] - Control, a 2011 anime
• Ctrl (web series), an American comedy web series
• CONTROL (Get Smart), a fictional counter-espionage agency

Games

• Control and control-bid, features of the game contract bridge
• Control (video game), 2019, by Remedy Entertainment

Music