Mediation. A settlement of a dispute or controversy by setting up an independent person between two contending parties in order to aid them in the settlement of their disagreement. In International Law, mediation is the friendly interference of one state in the controversies of nations.
User-Defined VBA Function & Sub Procedures. In Excel Visual Basic, a set of commands to perform a specific task is placed into a procedure, which can be a Function procedure or a Sub procedure (also known as functions and subroutines).
In languages such as C# and Java, classes are used to create objects. Class Modules are the VBA equivalent of these classes. The major different is that VBA Class Modules have a very limited type of Inheritance* compared to classes in the other languages. In VBA, Inheritance works in a similar way to Interfaces** in C#\Java.