moderators
noun
Meaning
- Someone who moderates
- The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
- A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
- A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
- An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
- At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
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