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- DictionaryCon·trol/kənˈtrōl/
noun
- 1. the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events: "the whole operation is under the control of a production manager"
- 2. a group or individual used as a standard of comparison for checking the results of a survey or experiment: "they saw no difference between the cancer patients and the controls"
verb
- 1. determine the behavior or supervise the running of: "he was appointed to control the company's marketing strategy"
- 2. take into account (an extraneous factor that might affect results) when performing an experiment: "no attempt was made to control for variations"