"game controller" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: game controllers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} game controller (plural game controllers)
  1. (video games) Any of various hardware devices designed to allow the user to provide input to video games. Wikipedia link: game controller Categories (topical): Video games Hyponyms: gamepad, joypad, joystick, motion controller, mouse, paddle, yoke Translations (A device designed to play video games): 遊戲控制器 (Chinese Mandarin), 游戏控制器 (yóuxì kòngzhìqì) (Chinese Mandarin), peliohjain (Finnish), manette [feminine] (French), spelkontroll [common-gender] (Swedish), kontroll [common-gender] (Swedish), oyun kumandası (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-game_controller-en-noun-y~TfVesI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: video-games

Inflected forms

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