Control is used in a variety of contexts to express "mastery" or "proficiency": e.g. "Music students attending a master class are expected to have full control of basic skills such as rhythm and pitch" and more generally an ability to purposefully direct (including suppression of) change.

Control may also refer to:

Management and finance

• Control (management): an element of management
• as an element of management accounting
• Internal control: a process implemented in an organization to help in achieving specific goals
• Comptroller (or controller): a senior financial officer in an organization.

Science and technology

• Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests such as insects, weeds, and plant diseases
• Control engineering, a discipline of modeling and controlling of systems
• Control system, the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
• Widget (computing) (control or widget), a component of a graphical user interface
• Scientific control to isolate variables in experiments
• Control network, a set of reference-points of known geospatial coordinates
• Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
• Control key, on a computer keyboard
• Argument control, in linguistics
• Controlling for a variable, in statistics
• Control freak, in folk psychology
• Control, a brand name for the drug lorazepam
• Control (orienteering)

Film and television

• Control (1920 film), a UK comedy short by Frank Miller
• Control (2004 film), a direct-to-video movie
• Control (2005 film), an Australian short film
• Control (2007 film), a movie about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, directed by Anton Corbijn
• Control (TV series), a 1994 magazine show aimed at Latin and Spanish-speaking youths
• Control or lang: Il Giorna prima, a 1987 made-for-TV movie starring Burt Lancaster
• Control (character), the fictional head of the Circus in the John Le Carré novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• CONTROL, a fictional secret U.S. government spy agency in the television series Get Smart and movies based on it.
• "Control" (House episode), an episode of the American TV series House
• Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian movie (released as Control internationally)

Music

• Control (GoodBooks album) a 2007 album by GoodBooks
• Control (Janet Jackson album), a 1986 album by Janet Jackson
• "Control" (Janet Jackson song), a song from the above album
• "Control" (Metro Station song), a 2007 song by Metro Station
• "Control" (Mute Math song) a 2004 song by Mute Math
• Control (Pedro the Lion album), a 2002 album by Pedro the Lion
• "Control" (Puddle of Mudd song), a 2001 song by Puddle of Mudd
• "She's Lost Control", a 1979 song by Joy Division