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me·di·ate

(mē'dē-āt),
1. Situated between; intermediate.
2. To effect something by means of an intermediary substance, as in complement-mediated phagocytosis.
[L. mediatus, fr. medio, pp. -atus, to divide in the middle]
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mediate

verb
(1) To act as the agent for a process.
(2) To intervene on behalf of another.
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me·di·ate

(mēdē-ăt, -āt)
1. Situated between; intermediate.
2. To effect something by means of an intermediary substance, as in complement-mediated phagocytosis.
[L. mediatus, fr. medio, pp. -atus, to divide in the middle]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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A mediated public relations course must start from the well-documented assumption that the student-indeed, most citizens-have a limited understanding of technology.
Helpfully, the Chief Counsel's procedures suggest that the parties enter a stipulation regarding the case to enable the court to continue to supervise the [proceedings..sup.13] The procedures also suggest that if the case has already been placed on the calendar, the parties file a joint motion for a continuance from the trial [session..sup.14] In our mediated case, District Counsel joined in a motion to remove the case from the trial calendar to permit the mediation.
At a minimum, the agreement should identify the participants, the mediator or co-mediators (or the procedure to be used to select a mediator), which party bears the cost of the mediator, the issues to be mediated, the materials to be submitted to the mediator and a proposed schedule and place for the mediation.
To cite one recurring example, I would return to Barbour's claim that Greene, Nashe, and Dekker, in their prose-related interests, "mediated some of their culture's ultimate concerns" (14).
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