| 1. | the part of a CPU that interprets the instructions in programs and directs the operation of the entire system. |
| 2. | controller (def. 5). |
[kuhn-troh-ler] 
| 1. | an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller. |
| 2. | a person who regulates, directs, or restrains. |
| 3. | British Aeronautics. a dispatcher. |
| 4. | a regulating mechanism; governor. |
| 5. | Also called control unit, processor. Computers. the key component of a peripheral device, as a terminal, printer, or external storage unit, that contains the circuitry necessary to interpret and execute instructions fed into the device. |
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