discriminator
English
noun
Definitions
- A person who discriminates or differentiates.
- A test or variable, etc. that serves to distinguish between different things.
- (physics) 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.
- (marketing) A feature of the seller's offering that differs from a competitor's offering and is important to the buyer in question.
Etymology
Suffix from English discriminate.
Origin
English
discriminate
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Cognates and derived terms
- anti-discriminator English
- discriminate English
- discriminately English
- discriminateness English
- discriminatory English
- nondiscriminate English
- nondiscriminator English
- discriminare Latin
- diszkriminál Hungarian
- *krey- Proto-Indo-European