control room

noun

1. a room housing control equipment, as in a recording studio.

Word History and Origins

Origin of control room¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

In 1996, she was promoted to the post of locomotive pilot - the main operator of the train's control room, or the "nerve centre" of the train.

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Explosions ripped through firewalls and engulfed much of the platform, including the control room and accommodation blocks - which were meant to be fireproof and safe.

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The images captured by the drones can be fed in real time to officers on the ground or back to the control room.

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The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: "Members of the public no longer need to alert our operations control room about this fire, as we are receiving a number of calls to this incident."

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It would have been one of nine new centres replacing the existing 46 control rooms across the country.

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