Meaning of Moderator | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who moderates.
2. An arbitrator or mediator.
3. The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
4. A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
   Internet
5. The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
6. A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
7. A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
8. An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
   UK
9. At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
   Ireland
10. Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
    UK
11. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
12. A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Angling was […] a moderator of passions.”

“Instead of focusing on the stressors, as in most research on caregiving, it may be wise to focus on the likely moderators: coping, and social support between stressors and stress. It is often difficult to help an individual to solve his or her primary problem, whereas providing social support and improving coping ability is feasible.”

“The post was eventually removed by the subreddit’s moderators as potentially fake, but not before a screenshot of it went viral on Twitter and dozens of outlets circulated the story with headlines like “Girl Gets Sweet, Fiery Revenge on Ex With ‘Game of Thrones’ Spoilers.” […] Before r/relationships, Anne was a moderator in the similar but much more unruly r/relationship_advice, where she had to teach herself how to do the job.”

“One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof […]”

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