Interpose vs Arbitrate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between interpose and arbitrate

is that interpose is while arbitrate is to make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter.

(en-verb)

To insert something (or oneself) between other things.

to interpose a screen between the eye and the light

* Cowper

Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.

* Shakespeare

What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?

To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.

(Milton)

To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.

* Cowper

long hid by interposing hill or wood.

To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

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To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter

to arbitrate a disputed case

* Shakespeare

There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.

To submit (a dispute) to such judgment

(mathematics, rare) To assign an object an arbitrary value, or otherwise arbitrarily determine it

We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...

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