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Moderator vs Moderatrix - What's the difference?

moderator | moderatrix |

As nouns the difference between moderator and moderatrix

is that moderator is moderator (mediator, chairman, web forum administrator) while moderatrix is a female moderator.

moderator

Alternative forms

* moderatour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who moderates
  • * Walton
  • Angling was a moderator of passions.
  • # 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.
  • * '>citation
  • (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.
  • moderatrix

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A female moderator.
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