Control

Control may refer to:

==Basic meanings== ===Economics and business=== Control (management), an element of management Control, an element of management accounting Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization Controlling interest, a percentage of voting stock shares sufficient to prevent opposition Foreign exchange controls, regulations on trade Internal control, a process to help achieve specific goals typically related to managing risk ===Mathematics and science=== Control (optimal control theory), a variable for steering a controllable system of state variables toward a desired goal Controlling for a variable in statistics Scientific control, an experiment in which "confounding variables" are minimised to reduce error Control variables, variables which are kept constant during an experiment Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests Control network in geodesy and surveying, a set of reference points of known geospatial coordinates Control room, a room where a physical facility can be monitored Process control in continuous production processes Security controls, safeguards against security risks