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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Control unit |
Aerospace | The part of a computer which causes the arithmetic unit, storage, and transfer of a computer to operate in proper sequence. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A device in an automatic switching system which performs memorisation, analysis or decision-making functions related to call processing or to automatic maintenance and data-acquisition procedures. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Device through which human commands are transmitted(in a machine). Source: European Union. (references) |
| Self-contained group of controls, indicators, test connections and other devices serving whole or portion of aircraft system, either accessible in flight or only during ground maintenance. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Post & Telecom | Value which persists during a certain period in transmission. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | System which is used to maintain the control of the aircraft by providing attitude stability and correct deflections and by translating guidance demands into required changes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
At one time control units for CPUs were ad-hoc logic, and they were difficult to design. Now they are often implemented as a microprogram that is stored in a control store. Words of the microprogram are selected by a microsequencer and the bits from those words directly control the different parts of the device, including the registers, arithmetic and logic units, instruction registers, buses, and off-chip input/output. In modern computers, each of these subsystems may have its own subsidiary controller, with the control unit acting as a supervisor. (See also CPU design and computer architecture.)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Control unit."
Crosswords: CONTROL UNIT |
| Specialty definitions using "CONTROL UNIT": accepting controller, accepting unit, advisory control ♦ base site controller messages, BSC messages ♦ DRILL-PRESS OPERATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROL ♦ Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, ETCHER, ELECTROLYTIC ♦ fetch-execute cycle ♦ IAS ♦ JIG-BORING MACHINE OPERATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROL ♦ LILLIAC IV ♦ machine cycle, MCP-1600 ♦ personality module, PIGMENT FURNACE TENDER ♦ remotely controlled exchange ♦ shared random access memory, switch interface ♦ target number ♦ UTILITY WORKER, PRODUCTION, utility worker, virus ♦ waiting time. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Marine Leathernecks of a Forward Air Control Unit for the U.S. Marines with the First Marine Division in Korea scan the skies from a rugged ridge, on the alert for incoming close-air support planes that continue to hammer at the Chinese Red troop concentrations just a few thousand yards beyond in the rugged Korean terrain." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 1 July 1951. Note backpack radio carried by one Marine, while another wears earphones and holds the microphone. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Zambia | In addition, there is a control unit that consists of officers trained in enforcement and investigations, which would monitor transactions in all major border stations. (references) |
Political Economy | Haiti | The HNP has a variety of specialized units, including a crisis response unit (SWAT); a crowd control unit (CIMO) serving Port-au-Prince and the Western department; crowd control units (UDMO's) serving each of the remaining eight departments; a presidential and security unit; a small Coast Guard unit; and a Special Investigative Unit (SIU), formed to investigate high-profile political killings. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "CONTROL UNIT": air traffic control unit ♦ aircraft control unit ♦ base control unit ♦ camera control unit ♦ communication control unit ♦ instruction control unit ♦ master control unit ♦ switch control unit. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
electronic control unit | 17 |
environmental control unit | 13 |
control unit | 13 |
remote control unit | 6 |
climate control unit | 4 |
temperature control unit | 3 |
antenna control unit | 3 |
medicaid fraud control unit | 3 |
mercedes ignition control unit | 3 |
abs control unit | 3 |
mercedes climate control unit | 2 |
computer control unit | 2 |
access control unit | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CONTROL UNIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | řídící jednotka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | central styreenhed (control element, switch control element), styringsindretning, styreenhed, ordrestyredel (instruction control unit), kontrolenhed (control element, switch control element), kommandovogn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | controle-inrichting, Control Unit, commandowagen, stuurorgaan, stuurinrichting, stuurapparaat, regelorgaan (control element, switch control element), DMV/CU, besturingsorgaan (instruction control unit), besturingseenheid, bedieningspaneel (control box, control panel, operational control panel, overhanging pendant switch, pendant control, pendant control box, pendant control station, pendant control switch, pendant-type panel), bedieningseenheid (control box, control panel), bedieningsdoos (control box, control panel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ohjausyksikkö (control element, switch control element), ohjausarvo, ohjain (actuator, cable chock, chock, control, control organ, controls, deflector, diverter, driver, fairlead, gaff, guidance, guide, instruction control unit, operating control, operating controls, operating device, spigot, steady arm, triangular end sill), johtoauto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | commodo, voiture de commandement, véhicule poste de commandement, unité de contrôle (control element, switch control element), unité de commande (control element, instruction control unit, switch control element), tiroir de commande, séquenceur (instruction control unit), organe de pilotage, organe de commande (control, control element, control organ, controls, operating control, operating controls, switch control element), dispositif de commande, boîtier de contrôle, boîtier de commande, boîte de commande (control box, control panel), équipement de commande (control element, switch control element). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Steuerwert (assessable value, ratable value, taxable value), Steuerungsteil, Steuerungseinheit, Steuer-und Regeleinrichtung, Steuerschieber, Steuerorgan, Steuereinheit (controller), Leitwerk (diversion structure, diversion work, empennage, empennage assembly, headworks, instruction control unit, jetty, piled fendering, staging, tail unit, timber staging, wing), Kontrolleinheit, Kommandogerät, Kommandofahrzeug, Bediengerät (control box, control panel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μονάδα ελέγχου (control element, switch control element). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | légiforgalmi irányító egység (air traffic control unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vettura-comando, unit di governo (instruction control unit), unit di controllo (instruction control unit), unit di comando (control box, control panel, quadrant), scatola di comando (control box, control panel), pannello di comando (control box, control panel), organo di governo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 制御装置 (controller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいぎょそうち (controller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontrolcay itunay comando de pilotagem, caixa de controlo (control box, control panel), unidade de controlo de instrução (instruction control unit), unidade de controlo (control box, control element, control panel, switch control element), unidade de comando, painel de controlo (control box, control panel), elemento de controlo da comutação (control element, switch control element), auto de comando. (various references) uređaj (aircraft control unit, appliance, device, gadget, gear, installation, machine). (various references) vehículo de mando, unidad de control (control element, instruction control unit, switch control element), mando de pilotaje, elemento de control de conmutación (control element, switch control element), elemento de control (control element, switch control element). (various references) styrenhet (instruction control unit), ledningsbil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: continuo, locution, notturni, notturno, unicolor. | |
-4 letters: contort, contour, control, cornuto, couloir, crouton, linocut, linuron, nocturn, orcinol, ruction, tortoni, unction, unicorn. | |
-5 letters: citron, coloni, colour, cortin, cotton, croton, incult, intort, intron, inturn, lictor, lotion, notion, nuncio, octroi, ronion, toluic, tricot, triton, turnon, uncoil, uncool, unroot, untorn. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-t-t-u" | |
+3 letters: congratulation, constructional. | |
+4 letters: congratulations, counterplotting. | |
+5 letters: constructionally, countercomplaint, counterinflation, noninstructional. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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