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arbiter

noun
/ˈɑː.bɪ.tə(ɹ)/UK/ˈɑɹ.bɪ.tɚ/CA/ˈaː.bɪ.tə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English arbiter, arbytour, arbitre, from Old French arbitre, from Latin arbiter (“a witness, judge, literally one who goes to see”).

  1. derived from arbiter
  2. derived from arbitre
  3. inherited from arbiter

Definitions

  1. A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them

    A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.

    • In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.

  2. A person or object having the power of judging, determining, or ordaining

    A person or object having the power of judging, determining, or ordaining; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.

    • Television and film, not Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
    • The grapholect of Standard English is not the exclusive system that arbiters of cultural purity wish to 'correct' us into believing

  3. A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The person who oversees a chess match and ensures the rules are followed.

      • The arbiter shall use his best judgement when determining the times to be shown on the replacement chess clock.

    2. To act as an arbiter.

      • Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.

The neighborhood

Derived

superarbiter

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at arbiter. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at arbiter. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at arbiter

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA