Mediate vs Coordinate - What's the difference?
mediate | coordinate |
To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
To divide into two equal parts.
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
Acting through a mediating agency.
* (Oliver Sacks)
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
* Sir W. Hamilton
Of the same rank; equal.
* Law
(mathematics, cartography) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
Something that is equal to another thing.
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To synchronize (activities).
To match (objects, especially clothes).
As adjectives the difference between mediate and coordinate
is that mediate is while coordinate is .As a verb coordinate is
.As a noun coordinate is
.mediate
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Verb
(mediat)- (Holder)
Adjective
- Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
- (Prior)
- (Francis Bacon)
- An act of mediate knowledge is complex.
Derived terms
* mediatelyExternal links
* * ----coordinate
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Alternative forms
* * co-ordinateAdjective
(-)- whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co-ordinate powers presiding over each country
