Moderator
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Moderator may refer to:
Government
[edit]- Moderator (town official), elected official who presides over the Town Meeting form of government in various American states.
Internet
[edit]- Internet forum moderator, a person given special authority to enforce the rules on a forum or social media platforms
- Game moderator
- Moderator of a Usenet newsgroup
- Google Moderator, an application to assist chairmen of online meetings
Religion
[edit]- Moderator of the General Assembly, the chairperson of the highest court in Presbyterian and Reformed churches
- Moderators and clerks in the Church of Scotland, the chairperson of any of the courts of the Church of Scotland
- Moderator of the curia, an administrative position in the Catholic church
Nuclear engineering
[edit]- Neutron moderator, a medium that reduces the velocity of fast neutrons, for example in a nuclear reactor
Other uses
[edit]- Moderator variable, in statistics, a qualitative or quantitative variable that affects the direction and/or strength of the relation between dependent and independent variables
- Sound moderator, a suppressor attached to a firearm
- A faction in the Regulator–Moderator War
- Discussion moderator, a person who controls the tone of a discussion or debate