Dictionary

discriminator en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English discriminate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English discriminator From discriminate + -or.

Meanings

1. A person who discriminates, as: ▸ A person who differentiates things or concepts.
   • 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 […] 1871, The British Quarterly Review, volume 54, page 279:
   • keen discriminator
2. A person who discriminates, as: ▸ A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.
   • I am not a discriminator
3. A test or variable, etc. that serves to distinguish between different things.
   • 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. 2018 December 13, Rui Gong, Wen Li, Yuhua Chen, Luc Van Gool, “DLOW: Domain Flow for Adaptation and Generalization”, in arXiv, page 2481:
   • Colour is not an effective discriminator when it comes to the spiciness of food.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Forms

Deriveds

nondiscriminator · anti-discriminator

Synonyms

differentiator · differentiator

Translations (10)

gl discriminador (person who discriminates) · pt discriminadora (person who discriminates) · it discriminatore (person who discriminates) · gl discriminadora (person who discriminates) · fr discriminatrice (person who discriminates) · es discriminadora (person who discriminates) · es discriminador (person who discriminates) · fr discriminateur (person who discriminates) · it discriminatrice (person who discriminates) · pt discriminador (person who discriminates)