Definition of "moderator"

moderator

/ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

noun
plural moderators
1. Someone who moderates.
  Quotations
  Angling was […] a moderator of passions.
  1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […]; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969,
  1. An arbitrator or mediator.
  2. The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
  3. (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
2. The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church.
3. (nuclear 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.
4. A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
5. (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
  Quotations
  One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof […]
  1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books‎, volume 1, Oxford: John Gutch, page 661
6. (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
7. (UK) Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
8. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
9. (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.