Dictionary definition for: Mediate
1. (v) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute" "He mediated a settlement"
2. (a) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
3. (v) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between the old and the new"
4. (s) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age" "in a mediate position" "the middle point on a line"
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