moderation Definition

1. The quality or state of being moderate.
2. An act of becoming or making something moderate or less extreme.
3. Lack of excess; self-control.

Thesaurus: temperance, discipline, restraint, self-restraint, tolerance, forbearance, abstemiousness, golden mean; Antonym: excess, over-indulgence.
4. The first public examinations for BA at Oxford University. Also (colloq) called Mods or mods.

Form: Moderations

To a moderate degree.

In moderate amounts.