Moderator vs Controller - What's the difference?
moderator | controller |
someone who moderates
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# an arbitrator or mediator
# the chair or president of a meeting etc.
the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
(physics) 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.
(UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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(Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
One who controls something.
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(business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
(computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
(nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
As nouns the difference between moderator and controller
is that moderator is moderator (mediator, chairman, web forum administrator) while controller is one who controls something.moderator
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(wikipedia moderator)Alternative forms
* moderatour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Angling was a moderator of passions.
controller
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Noun
(en noun)- The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.