mediate

Adjective

• being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
  • adolescence is an awkward in-between age
    
  • in a mediate position
    
  • the middle point on a line
    

• acting through or dependent on an intervening agency
  • the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact
    

Verb

• occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
  • mediate between the old and the new
    

• act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
  • He interceded in the family dispute
    
  • He mediated a settlement
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  in-between , middle , intercede , intermediate , liaise , arbitrate