A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;
Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
in research, an object or subject used in an experimental procedure, which is treated identically to the primary subject of the experiment, except for the omission of the specific treatment or conditions whose effect is being investigated. If the control is a group of living organisms, as is common in medical research, it is called the control group.
the part of an experimental procedure in which the controls{6} are subjected to the experimental conditions.
the group of technical specialists exercising control by remote communications over a distant operation, such as a space flight; as, the American Mission Control for manned flights is located in Houston.
To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
to assure the validity of an experimental procedure by using a control{7}.
The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
