controlled

adj — 4 senses

controlled

adj

UK /kənˈtɹəʊld/ · US /kənˈtɹoʊld/

1

Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.

2

Subjected to regulation or direction.

3

Medicine, Sciences Resulting from a comparison with control samples; including a comparison (control) group. (describing clinical trials)

  • A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).
  • Attempto Controlled English (ACE).
4

In compounds Under the control of the specified entity.

  • 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.1973, Noel Pitts Gist, Roy Dean Wright, Marginality and Identity, page 150:
Derived terms
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Hyponyms
climate-controlled

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