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Mediator

  [mee-dee-ey-ter]
Mediator may refer to:

  • A neutral party who assists in negotiations and conflict resolution, the process being known as mediation
  • By analogy, someone who channels contact between mortals and divinity; e.g. in the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is sometimes referred to as the mediator between humanity and God the Father
  • Mediator variable in statistics;
  • The Mediator pattern in computer science;
  • The multiprotein Mediator (coactivator) in Molecular Biology functions as a transcriptional coactivator;
  • MatchWare Mediator, an advanced multimedia authoring tool for Windows;

See also mediation.

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