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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 45 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med.
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Lat. contra-rotulus, a
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counter roll or copy of a document used to check the
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original; there is no instance in
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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
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body or mind by the will, and generally the power of regulation . In England the "Board of Control," abolished in 1858, was the body which supervised the East India
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Company in the administration of India . In the case of " controller," a general
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term for a public official who checks
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expenditure, the more usual form "
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comptroller " is a 'wrong spelling due to a false connexion with " accompt " or " account." A " control " or " control-experiment," in science, is an experiment used, by an application of the method of difference, to check the inferences
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drawn from another experiment .

End of Article: CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)
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