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English
Etymology
From discriminate + -or.
Noun
discriminator (plural discriminators)
- A person who discriminates, as:
- 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 […]
- A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.
I am not a discriminator
- 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.
- (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.
- 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
- (Late Latin) one who distinguishes or discriminates
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
Verb
discrīminātor
- 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 (2016 July 16 (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)
- discriminator
Declension
Declension of discriminator