moderator
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- moderatour (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From Latin moderator.
[edit] Noun
moderator (plural moderators)
- someone who moderates
- an arbitrator or mediator
- the chair or president of a meeting etc
- the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
- (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
- a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
[edit] Translations
someone who moderates
[edit] Latin
[edit] Noun
moderātor (genitive moderātōris); m, third declension
[edit] Inflection
[edit] Verb
moderātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of moderō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of moderō
[edit] Serbo-Croatian
[edit] Noun
moderator m. (Cyrillic spelling модератор)