federator

English

Etymology

From federate +‎ -or.

Noun

federator (plural federators)

1. Someone or something that is instrumental in the creation of a federation.
   • 1878, James Martineau, Ideal Substitutes for God: Considered in an Opening Lecture at Manchester, page 6:

     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.

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

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

   • 2010, Erika Grey, The Seat of the Antichrist:

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

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

     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.

2. (computing) A component that integrates access to various services.
   • 2009, Nik Bessis, Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support, page 281:

     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.

   • 2012, Paul Baan, Enterprise Information Management, page 183:

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

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

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