Dictionary
mod•er•a•tion
Pronunciation: (mod"u-rā'shun), [key]—
n.
1. the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
2. the act of moderating.
3. moderations, Brit.the first public examinations at Oxford University for the B.A. degree in mathematics or in classics.
4. in moderation, without excess; moderately; temperately:
to drink in moderation. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.