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See also:CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older See also:form contre rolle, from Med. See also:Lat. contra-rotulus, a See also:counter See also:roll or copy of a document used to check the See also:original; there is no instance in See also:English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning) , a substantive (whence the verb) for that which checks or regulates anything, and so especially command of See also:body or mind by the will, and generally the See also:power of regulation . In See also:England the "See also:Board of See also:Control," abolished in 1858, was the body which supervised the See also:East See also:India See also:Company in the See also:administration of India . In the See also:case of " controller," a See also:general See also:term for a public See also:official who checks See also:expenditure, the more usual See also:form " See also:comptroller " is a 'wrong spelling due to a false connexion with " accompt " or " See also:account." A " control " or " control-experiment," in See also:science, is an experiment used, by an application of the method of difference, to check the inferences See also:drawn from another experiment . |
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