Arbiter

Arbiter may refer to:

  • Arbiter or arbitrator, a person by whose decision the parties to a dispute agree to be bound in Arbitration
  • Arbiter (electronics), a component in electronic circuitry that allocate scarce resources
    • Memory arbiter, a component that allocates memory
      • Wavefront arbiter, a commercial memory arbiter optimized for high-speed operation
  • Referee in sporting matches
  • Arbiter (Halo), a character in the Halo video game series
  • ArbiterSports, a sports officiating software company owned by the NCAA
  • HMS Arbiter (D31), an escort aircraft carrier in the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom
  • International Arbiter, in chess a title conferred by FIDE to match referees
  • Petronius, a Roman author and satirist known formally as Gaius Petronius Arbiter
  • Arbiter-class starships, Protoss support vessels in the StarCraft science-fiction series.
  • One of the names of the Hindi deity Hanuman.
  • Arbiter, an American metal band.

Famous quotes containing the word arbiter:

    He has gone over to the majority.
    —Petronius Arbiter (d.A.D. 66)

    The arbiter of taste.
    Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)

    Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
    Emma Goldman (1869–1940)