late 14c., from Anglo-French contrerolleour (late 13c.), Old French contrerelleor (Modern French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrarotulator, agent noun from *contra-rotulare (see control (v.)). Mechanical sense is from 1867.
权威例句
1. The programme was rescheduled to 9.30pm by Alan Yentob, controller of BBC1.
英国广播公司电视一台的主管艾伦·耶恩托布将这个节目改为晚上9点30分播出。
2. This paper presents an adaptive control algorithm —— the Minimum Deviation Advance Controller ( MDA C ).