Moderator

Moderator often refers to the chairman of a meeting. Specifically, it may refer to:

Government

• Moderator (town official), elected official who presides over the Town Meeting form of government

Internet

• Forum moderators, a person given special powers to enforce the rules on an Internet forum, newsgroup or blog
• IRC moderators
• Game moderators
• Moderators of Usenet Newsgroups
• Google Moderator, an application to assist chairmen of online meetings

Religion

• Moderator of the General Assembly, the chairperson of the highest court of a Presbyterian church
  • Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
  • Moderators and clerks in the Church of Scotland
• The elected leader of a state synod of the Uniting Church of Australia
• The presiding bishop of the Church of North India
• The presiding bishop of the Church of South India
• Moderator of the Curia, in the Catholic Church
• Priest-moderator, a post-Vatican II priest that leads a team of priests in solidum

Other uses

• Moderator variable, in statistics, a qualitative or quantitative variable that affects the direction and/or strength of the relation between dependent and independent variables
• Neutron moderator, a medium that reduces the velocity of fast neutrons, for example in a nuclear reactor
• Sound moderator, a suppressor attached to a firearm
• A presenter or television host

See also

• List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)