Moderator

Moderator may refer to:

Government

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

Internet

• Internet forum moderator, a person given special authority to enforce the rules on a forum
• Game moderator
• Moderator of a Usenet newsgroup
• Google Moderator, an application to assist chairmen of online meetings

Religion

• In churches or denominations with presbyterian government
  • Moderator of the General Assembly, the chairperson of the highest court or synod of a church
    • Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
    • Moderator of the United Church of Canada
    • Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
    • The presiding bishop of the Church of North India
    • The presiding bishop of the Church of South India
  • Moderators and clerks in the Church of Scotland
  • The elected leader of a state synod of the Uniting Church in Australia
• In the Catholic Church
  • Moderator of the curia
  • Priest-moderator, a post-Vatican II priest that leads a team of priests in solidum

Nuclear engineering

• Neutron moderator, a medium that reduces the velocity of fast neutrons, for example in a nuclear reactor

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
• 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