Government

• Moderator (town official)
  Moderator (town official)
  A moderator is an official of an incorporated town who presides over the town meeting, and in some cases, other municipal meetings. In the United States, the area of the country best known for the town meeting form of government is New England. The office of moderator exists in at least Connecticut...
  
  , elected official who presides over the Town Meeting form of government

Internet

• Forum moderators, a person given special powers to enforce the rules on an Internet forum, newsgroup or blog

• IRC moderators
• Game moderators
• Moderators of Usenet
  Usenet
  Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
  
   Newsgroups

Religion

• Moderator of the General Assembly
  Moderator of the General Assembly
  The Moderator of the General Assembly is the chairperson of a General Assembly, the highest court of a presbyterian or reformed church. Kirk Sessions and Presbyteries may also style the chairperson as moderator....
  
  , the chairperson of the highest court of a Presbyterian church
  • Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
    Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
    The Moderator of the General Assembly of Church of Scotland is a Minister, Elder or Deacon of the Church of Scotland chosen to "moderate" the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every May....
    
    
• The elected leader of a state synod of the Uniting Church of Australia
• The presiding bishop of the Church of North India
• The presiding bishop of the Church of South India
• Moderator of the Curia
  Moderator of the Curia
  A moderator of the curia, under the authority of the bishop of a diocese in the Catholic Church, coordinates the exercise of the administrative duties and oversees those who hold offices and minister in diocesan administration. He must be a priest. The office has been variously described as...
  
  , in the Catholic Church
• Priest-moderator, a post-Vatican II priest that leads a Team of priests in solidum
  Team of priests in solidum
  In 1983 the Catholic Church introduced the possibility of entrusting the pastoral care, of one or more parishes to a team of priests in solidum. This provision in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which resembles ancient models of pastoral care in the Roman tituli churches with their colleges of priests,...
  
  

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
• Neutron moderator
  Neutron moderator
  In nuclear engineering, a neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons, thereby turning them into thermal neutrons capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction involving uranium-235....
  
  , a medium that reduces the velocity of fast neutrons
• Sound moderator, a suppressor
  Suppressor
  A suppressor, sound suppressor, sound moderator, or silencer, is a device attached to or part of the barrel of a firearm which reduces the amount of noise and flash generated by firing the weapon....
  
   attached to a firearm
• Another name for a Presenter
  Presenter
  A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...
  
   or television host

See also

• Moderator (Nuclear Reactor)
• Google Moderator
  Google Moderator
  Google Moderator is a Google service that uses crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions and ideas. It was launched on September 25, 2008. The service allows the management of feedback from a large number of people, who can vote for the top questions that they think should be...
  
  

• Moderators and clerks in the Church of Scotland
  Moderators and clerks in the Church of Scotland
  The Church of Scotland maintains a presbyterian polity and is thus governed by a hierarchy of bodies known as church courts. Each of these courts has a moderator and a clerk.-Moderators:...
  
  
• List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)