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