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Definition of Moderator
1. Noun. Any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors.
Generic synonyms: Inhibitor
Specialized synonyms: Deuterium Oxide, Heavy Water
2. Noun. In the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly.
3. Noun. Someone who presides over a forum or debate.
4. Noun. Someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence.
Specialized synonyms: Modifier
Derivative terms: Moderate, Moderatorship
Definition of Moderator
1. n. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
Definition of Moderator
1. Noun. someone who moderates ¹
2. Noun. the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church ¹
3. Noun. (physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission ¹
4. Noun. a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moderator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moderator
Literary usage of Moderator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"way upon his dismay at finding no moderator, on the reasons which might have
detained the moderator, and his anxiety that the moderator should arrive in ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"There is in every parish a kirk session, consisting of the minister as moderator
or president, and of " elders," the number of whom 6. ..."
3. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its by Henry Martyn Dexter, Andover Theological Seminary (1880)
"It would be much better, on all accounts, that the moderator be invariably elected
by ballot; invariably, because that would take away all suspicion of ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1898)
"In this, the third specimen which lie hits described, the moderator band of the left
... The moderator band was also associated with two similar threads, ..."
5. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"Lord Keeper moderator in disputation between Roman Catholic and Protestant divines.
His partiality. part worth transcribing is his advice as to the manner ..."
6. Collections by CT Historical Society (1908)
"At a meeting of the Proprietors of Londonderry at their old meetinghouse upon
Friday the fourth day of June 1736. voted for moderator John Blair. ..."
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