Moderator

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Moderator may refer to:

In organisations:

• Forum moderator, a person given special powers to enforce the rules on an Internet forum or newsgroup

[edit] 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
• Moderator (town official), elected official who presides over the Town Meeting form of government
• the presiding bishop of the Church of North India
• the presiding bishop of the Church of South India
• a priest-moderator is a post-Vatican II priest that leads a pastoral team.

Other uses:

• Moderator variable in statistics is 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
• Sound moderator, a suppressor, a device attached to a firearm

[edit] See also

Terminology:

• Moderator (Internet)
• Moderator (Nuclear Reactor)

Related:

• Moderators and clerks in the Church of Scotland
• List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

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