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Control Room

Definition: Control Room

Control Room

Noun

1. A room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definition: Control Room

Domain	Definition
Energy	The area in a nuclear power plant from which most of the plant power production and emergency safety equipment can be operated by remote control. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Control Room

Specialty definitions using "control room": ACCELERATOR OPERATOR ♦ BLENDER II ♦ control loudspeaker, ct technologis ♦ DIRECTOR, TELEVISION ♦ INCINERATOR OPERATOR II ♦ magnetic resonance imaging technologis, monitor loud-speaker ♦ NUCLEAR-TEST-REACTOR PROGRAM COORDINATOR ♦ REACTOR OPERATOR, TEST-AND-RESEARCH ♦ SOUND CONTROLLER, SPECIAL PROCEDURES TECHNOLOGIST, CT SCAN, SPECIAL PROCEDURES TECHNOLOGIST, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, SUPERVISOR, SUGAR REFINERY. (references)

Modern Usage: Control Room

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We lost the control room. (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Control Room

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Control Room - 10ft x 10ft Wind Tunnel. Credit: NASA.		Scene in the control room during Wahoo's 27 January 1943 action with a Japanese destroyer. When the photo was taken the submarine was at 300 feet, rigged for depth charges. Six charges had just gone off and the crew was awaiting more. Lieutenant Commander Dudley W. Morton, Wahoo's Commanding Officer, reported this action as: "Another running gun fight ... destroyer gunning ... Wahoo running". Shaved head on crewman at right is a product of an Equator crossing ceremony three days previously. Credit: NAVY.
	An officer looks through the periscope in the submarine's control room, 27 October 1955. This photograph was released by the Department of Defense on 12 December 1955 as part of a press release announcing the use of the Albacore hull design for the new SSN-585 (Skipjack) class of nuclear-powered submarines. Credit: NAVY.		Chief engineer O.B. Hanson (standing right) with technicians in the main control room, as the first NBC radio show goes on the air. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Ted Gempp, operator of the radio station at Alpine, N.J., shown at microphone in the control room of the station / World Telegram p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Al. Aumuller..		Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Control room. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Control room. Credit: Library of Congress.		Hawthorn Power Plant, Kansas City Light and Power, Kansas City, Missouri. General view, control room. Credit: Library of Congress.
	National Broadcasting Co., Rockefeller Center, New York. Studio and control room. Credit: Library of Congress.		W.J.S.V. transmitter. Control room of W.J.S.V. I. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Control Room

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Bahrain	Alstom, through its local partner Ahmed Mansoor Al A'ali and Comsip Alstom, will engineer, procure and construct a new control room and instrumentation systems. (references)
Human Rights	India	Also in January, militants stormed a police control room in Srinagar, killing 8 policemen. (references)
Worker Rights	Namibia	For example, in 1999 workers at the Navachab gold mine near Karibib occupied the control room at the Ore Mill and shut down production to protest the extreme heat and shortage of oxygen in the mine's metallurgy plant. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Control Room

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
control room	29
control room console	15
cctv control room software	10
control room design	8
control room furniture	7
control room temperature	6
chair control room	5
cctv control room	5
control room equipment	5
control room sound	4
control room desk	2
control room operator	2
control room monitor	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Control Room

Language		Translations for "control room"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		αίθουσα ελέγχου. (various references)

Hungarian		vezérlőterem, irányítóterem. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		司令室 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しれいしつ. (various references)

Pig Latin		ontrolcay oomray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Control Room

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-l-m-n-o-o-o-o-r-r-t"
	-2 letters: locomotor.
	-3 letters: octoroon, toolroom.
	-4 letters: control, monocot.
	-5 letters: croton.
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.

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album

5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams

9. Bibliography

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