Moderator

Moderator may refer to:

Government

• Moderator (town official), elected official who presides over the Town Meeting form of government in various American states.

Internet

• Internet forum moderator, a person given special authority to enforce the rules on a forum or social media platforms
• Game moderator a person, sometimes paunchy, given special authority to sit at their desk 24/7 and enforce rules on a game.
• Moderator of a Usenet newsgroup
• Google Moderator, an application to assist chairmen of online meetings

Religion

• Moderator of the General Assembly, the chairperson of the highest court in Presbyterian and Reformed churches
• Moderators and clerks in the Church of Scotland, the chairperson of any of the courts of the Church of Scotland
• Moderator of the curia, an administrative position in the Catholic church

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