different between moderator vs modulator

English

Alternative forms

• moderatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin moder?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?d???e?t?(?)/

Noun

moderator (plural moderators)

1. someone who moderates

   • Angling was […] a moderator of passions.

   1. an arbitrator or mediator
   2. the chair or president of a meeting etc.
   3. (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.

      Synonym: mod

2. the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
3. (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
4. a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
5. (Britain) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
6. (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.
7. (Britain) someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
8. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
9. (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch moderator, from Latin moder?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mod??rat?r]
• Hyphenation: mo?dê?ra?tor

Noun

moderator (first-person possessive moderatorku, second-person possessive moderatormu, third-person possessive moderatornya)

1. moderator:
   1. someone who moderates: an arbitrator or mediator;
   2. someone who moderates: the chair or president of a meeting.

      Synonym: pemandu

   3. (engineering) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission

Derived terms

Further reading

• “moderator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mo.de?ra?.tor/, [m?d????ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mo.de?ra.tor/, [m?d??????t??r]

Noun

moder?tor m (genitive moder?t?ris); third declension

1. manager, ruler, governor, director
2. moderator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

moder?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of moder?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of moder?

Descendants

• English: moderator
• French: modérateur
• Italian: moderatore
• Portuguese: moderador
• Spanish: moderador

References

• moderator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moderator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moderator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• moderator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French modérateur, from Latin moderatore.

Noun

moderator n (plural moderatori)

1. moderator

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

moderator m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. moderator

English

Etymology

modulate +? -or

Noun

modulator (plural modulators)

1. A person who modulates.
2. A device or thing that modulates.
   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English

     [Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.

3. (music) A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.

Translations

Latin

Verb

modul?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of modulor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of modulor

References

• modulator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• modulator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• modulator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• modulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French modulateur

Noun

modulator n (plural modulatori)

1. modulator

Declension