discriminator

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English

Etymology

From discriminate +‎ -or.

Noun

discriminator (plural discriminators)

  1. A person who discriminates, as:
    1. A person who differentiates things or concepts.
      Synonym: differentiator
      keen discriminator
      • 1871, The British Quarterly Review, volume 54, page 279:
        Generally, we may say, that Mr. Smith is a very accomplished etymological scholar, a very keen discriminator, and that his illustrative examples are selected with great industry, and from a wide field of English literature
    2. A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.
      I am not a discriminator
  2. A test or variable, etc. that serves to distinguish between different things.
    Colour is not an effective discriminator when it comes to the spiciness of food.
    • 2018 December 13, Rui Gong, Wen Li, Yuhua Chen, Luc Van Gool, “DLOW: Domain Flow for Adaptation and Generalization”, in arXiv, page 2481:
      Moreover, the domainness variable also plays the role of weighting discriminators to balance the relatedness of the generated images to different domains. Taking semantic segmentation as an example, a typical way is to append a discriminator to the segmentation model, which is used to distinguish the source and target samples.
  3. (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.
  4. (marketing) A feature of the seller's offering that differs from a competitor's offering and is important to the buyer in question.
    Synonym: differentiator
    An especially strong warranty can be a discriminator in some marketplaces.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From discrīminō +‎ -tor.

Noun

discrīminātor m (genitive discrīminātōris); third declension

  1. (Late Latin) one who distinguishes or discriminates
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative discrīminātor discrīminātōrēs
genitive discrīminātōris discrīminātōrum
dative discrīminātōrī discrīminātōribus
accusative discrīminātōrem discrīminātōrēs
ablative discrīminātōre discrīminātōribus
vocative discrīminātor discrīminātōrēs

Etymology 2

Verb

discrīminātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of discrīminō

References

  • discriminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • discriminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • discriminator in Ramminger, Johann (July 16 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French discriminateur.

Noun

discriminator n (plural discriminatoare)

  1. discriminator

Declension

Declension of discriminator
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative discriminator discriminatorul discriminatoare discriminatoarele
genitive-dative discriminator discriminatorului discriminatoare discriminatoarelor
vocative discriminatorule discriminatoarelor