controlled
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈtɹəʊld/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈtɹoʊld/
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Adjective
controlled (comparative more controlled, superlative most controlled)
- Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
- He speaks with scarcely controlled fury.
- Subjected to regulation or direction.
- My controlled performance as Lear was masterful.
- (medicine, sciences, research) Resulting from a comparison with control samples; including a comparison (control) group. (describing clinical trials)
- We've tested the effectiveness of controlled doses of the drug.
- A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).
- (in combination) Under the control of the specified entity.
- 1973, Noel Pitts Gist, Roy Dean Wright, Marginality and Identity, page 150:
- The history of the Anglo-Indian Community in British-controlled India is one of many ups and downs, of vicissitudes and prosperity, of security and insecurity.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- autocontrolled
- computer-controlled timing
- controlled-access highway
- controlled atmosphere
- controlled burn
- controlled chaos
- controlled drug
- controlled explosion
- controlled flight into terrain
- controlledly
- controlledness
- controlled opposition
- controlled-release
- controlled substance
- controlled variable time
- controlled vocabulary
- enantiocontrolled
- government-owned and controlled corporation
- hypercontrolled
- microcontrolled
- myocontrolled
- neurocontrolled
- non-controlled
- noncontrolled
- paracontrolled
- placebo-controlled
- radio-controlled
- radio-controlled car
- regiocontrolled
- rent-controlled
- self-controlled
- semicontrolled
- servocontrolled
- silicon-controlled rectifier
- stereocontrolled
- supercontrolled
- thermocontrolled
- thought-controlled
- uncontrolled
- undercontrolled
- voluntary controlled school
Translations
inhibited or restrained in one's words or actions
resulting from a comparison
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Under the control of the specified entity
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Verb
controlled