English Explanatory Dictionary

discriminator

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who discriminates, as:
  2. A person who differentiates things or concepts.
  3. A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.
  4. A test or variable, etc. that serves to distinguish between different things.
  5. Any of several electronic devices that convert some property of a signal into an amplitude whose value is proportional to the difference between the value of the input signal and that of a standard.
  6. A feature of the seller's offering that differs from a competitor's offering and is important to the buyer in question.

Word forms

discriminator discriminators

Etymology

From discriminate + -or.

Synonyms

differentiator

Derived words

anti-discriminator nondiscriminator

Translations

French: discriminateur French: discriminatrice Galician: discriminador Galician: discriminadora Italian: discriminatore Italian: discriminatrice Portuguese: discriminador Portuguese: discriminadora Spanish: discriminador Spanish: discriminadora
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