Usually means: Mechanisms that regulate or direct.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word controls:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. controls: Merriam-Webster
  2. controls: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. controls: Collins English Dictionary
  4. controls: Vocabulary.com
  5. Control's, Controls, control's, controls: Wordnik
  6. controls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. controls: Wiktionary
  8. controls: Dictionary.com
  9. controls: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. controls: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. controls: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. controls: Legal dictionary
  4. controls: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Controls (computing), controls: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. controls: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. controls: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. controls: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the controls: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See control as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (control)

verb:  (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
verb:  (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.
verb:  (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
noun:  The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
noun:  Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
noun:  A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
noun:  (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
noun:  A control group or control experiment.
noun:  A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
noun:  (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
noun:  (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
noun:  (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
noun:  (spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
noun:  (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
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