discriminator
nounEtymology From discriminate + -or.
› A person who discriminates, as:
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A person who differentiates things or concepts.
- keen discriminator
- 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:
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A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.
- I am not a discriminator
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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.
- 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:
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, 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.
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Business, Marketing 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.
- Derived terms
- anti-discriminator, nondiscriminator