federator

plural federators

1. Someone or something that is instrumental in the creation of a federation.

   There would perhaps be a federator, but it would not be European.

   2002, Michael Burgess, Federalism and the European Union, page 81

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   Its power as an element of character, as an inspiration in art, as a federator of nations and factor of history, is freely admitted; and no place that it can fairly claim in the genesis of society and the regulation of life is denied to it.

   1878, James Martineau, Ideal Substitutes for God: Considered in an Opening Lecture at Manchester, page 6

   He called the US, “the unwanted federator of an integrated Europe.”

   2010, Erika Grey, The Seat of the Antichrist

   The following is a synopsis of the appeal to the people which the prince actually prepared for broadcast over Radio Algiers: He came forward as the federator of French energies.

   2012, Samuel M. Osgood, French Royalism under the Third and Fourth Republics, page 175

2. computingA component that integrates access to various services.

   The federator now can implement logic that determines where the data is placed.

   2013, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments, page 68

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   Our extended standard GIS web Service components are integrated into the system through a federator, which is actually a WMS that is extended with capability-aggregating and stateful service capabilities to enable high performance support for responsive GIS applications.

   2009, Nik Bessis, Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support, page 281

   The results of the crawler, the administrative components, and the federator are stored in a database.

   2012, Paul Baan, Enterprise Information Management, page 183