Mediate - Definition

adj 1: acting through or dependent on an intervening agency;
"the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
[ant: immediate]
2: 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" [syn: in-between,
mediate, middle]
v 1: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
"He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a
settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, intermediate,
liaise, arbitrate]
2: occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a
connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between
the old and the new"