A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such 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.
A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrarotulum, from Latin contra + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula, diminutive of rota.
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