Definitions of mediate:

• verb:   occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others

  Example: "Mediate between the old and the new"

• verb:   act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

  Example: "He mediated a settlement"

• adjective:   acting through or dependent on an intervening agency

  Example: "The disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"

• adjective:   being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

  Example: "In a mediate position"

• name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #61933)