Lexic.us

Definition of Controlled

1. Adjective. Restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds. "The controlled release of water from reservoirs"

Definition of Controlled

1. Adjective. Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions. ¹

2. Verb. (past of control) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Controlled

1. control [v] - See also: control

Lexicographical Neighbors of Controlled

Literary usage of Controlled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"value of the capital stock which the length «f the lines operated, owned, leased, or controlled in this state bears to the total length of the lines owned, ..."

2. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"EXAMPLES OF controlled ASSOCIATION Dwelling so long on the test for controlled association may have created the impression that this is a rather artificial ..."

3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1900)
"A large piece of iodo- form gauze was packed firmly in the wound and controlled the bleeding temporarily; as soon as it was disturbed, however, ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"controlled-potential electrolysis cell. EST Measurements. Esr spectra were recorded with a Varían V-4502-15 X-band spectrometer with 100-kHz magnetic field ..."

5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"The successive association under single class names may be called less controlled, the other more controlled associates. In the 3 minutes the average total ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The conductivity of the rod may be completely controlled by mixing with the magnesia varying amounts of silica and of fusible silicates. ..."

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