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moderator
[ mod-uh-rey-ter ]
noun
- a person or thing that moderates.
- a person who presides over a panel discussion on radio or television.
- a member of an online message board or electronic mailing list with privileges and responsibilities to approve or reject messages and uphold the terms of service.
- a presiding officer, as at a public forum, a legislative body, or an ecclesiastical body in the Presbyterian Church.
- Physics. a substance, as graphite or heavy water, used to slow neutrons to speeds at which they are more efficient in causing fission.
moderator
/ ˈɒəˌɪə /
noun
- a person or thing that moderates
- Presbyterian Church a minister appointed to preside over a Church court, synod, or general assembly
- a presiding officer at a public or legislative assembly
- a material, such as heavy water or graphite, used for slowing down neutrons in the cores of nuclear reactors so that they have more chance of inducing nuclear fission
- an examiner at Oxford or Cambridge Universities in first public examinations
- (in Britain and New Zealand) one who is responsible for consistency of standards in the grading of some educational assessments
- a person who monitors the conversations in an on-line chatroom for bad language, inappropriate content, etc
moderator
- A substance, such as graphite, water, or heavy water, placed in a nuclear reactor to slow neutrons down to speeds at which they are more likely to be captured by fissionable components of a fuel (such as uranium-235) and less likely to be absorbed by nonfissionable components of a fuel (such as uranium-238).
- Also called neutron moderator
- See also slow neutron
Derived Forms
- ˈǻˌٴǰ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ǻ···ٴ·· [mod-er-, uh, -, tawr, -ee-, uh, l, -, tohr, -], adjective
- ǻİ·tǰ· noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of moderator1
Example Sentences
When asked by the moderator, “Does anybody say: If I had to go back, I would have voted differently?”
“She showed me that there was a path forward for regaining a sense of authorship over your own life,” Knox said to the event’s moderator, The Times’ Amy Kaufman.
During Wednesday's debate, Dutton responded to the moderator's question on whether flooding and natural disasters were getting worse by saying, "I don't know because I'm not a scientist".
The images were not limited to those from profiles, he said – they included pictures which had been sent privately in messages, and even some which had been removed by moderators.
Trump and other conservatives cried foul because debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis pushed back against Trump’s inaccurate statements, including that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets.
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