Process and Controller

• (n.) A series of actions, motions or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
• (n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
• (n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
• (n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
• (n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

noun

• A particular course of action intended to achieve a result.
  • usage: "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
  • synonyms: procedure
• Psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. (
  • usage: "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
  • synonyms: cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
• A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant.
  • synonyms: summons
• A mental process that you are not directly aware of.
  • usage: "the process of denial"
  • synonyms: unconscious process
• A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant.
  • usage: "a bony process"
  • synonyms: outgrowth, appendage
• A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.
  • usage: "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
  • synonyms: physical process

verb

• Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.
  • usage: "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill"
  • synonyms: treat
• Deal with in a routine way.
  • usage: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
• Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information.
  • usage: "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech"
• Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.
  • usage: "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
  • synonyms: action, sue, litigate
• March in a procession.
  • usage: "They processed into the dining room"
  • synonyms: march
• Shape, form, or improve a material.
  • usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
  • synonyms: work, work on
• Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.
  • usage: "He was processed by the sheriff"
  • synonyms: serve, swear out

noun

• Someone who maintains and audits business accounts.
  • synonyms: accountant, comptroller
• A person who directs and restrains.
  • synonyms: restrainer
• A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine.
  • usage: "the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her"
  • synonyms: control

• (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
• (n.) One who or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
• (n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts or to examine, rectify or verify accounts.
• (n.) A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the current to or shutting it off from, an electric motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway car.
• (n.) A lever controlling the speed of an engine; -- applied especially to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, especially on an automobile.
• (n.) Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system;.
• (n.) An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in an automatic device for constant current regulation.

controller is the chief financial officer of a company, financial institution or other entity. The controller is responsible for supervising the operations of the accounting department and preparing its financial reports. Also spelled comptroller.