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Discriminator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who discriminates, as:; A person who differentiates things or concepts.

    "keen discriminator"

  2. 2
    a person who (or that which) differentiates wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who discriminates, as:; A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.

    "I am not a discriminator"

  4. 4
    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."

  5. 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.
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  1. 6
    A feature of the seller's offering that differs from a competitor's offering and is important to the buyer in question.

    "An especially strong warranty can be a discriminator in some marketplaces."

Etymology

From discriminate + -or.

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