control system

1. 1.

   a system for controlling the operation of another system

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Questions about control system

What does control system mean?

control system means "a system for controlling the operation of another system".

Is control system a common word?

control system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.