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discrimination
  1. Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things, with intent to understand rightly and make correct decisions.
  2. The act of recognizing the 'good' and 'bad' in situations and choosing good.
  3. The setting apart of a person or group of people in a negative way, as in being discriminated against.
  4. (sometimes discrimination against) Distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry.
  5. The quality of being discriminating, acute discernment, specifically in a learning situation; as to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
  6. That which discriminates; mark of distinction, a characteristic.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “This is a case of unjust discrimination against a marginalized group.”
      “We should be allowed to enjoy art with discrimination and an appreciation of its subtleties.”
      “She was able to make a discrimination between the various species by their subtle physical differences.”
discriminator
  1. A person who discriminates or differentiates.
  2. A test or variable, etc. that serves to distinguish between different things.
  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.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Although in common use, the geochemistry of modern arc lavas is not a safe discriminator for the tectonic setting of Archaean volcanic rocks.”
      “We want to make it a discriminator that forces you to remember good professional practice.”
      “They are workers who do work for the alleged discriminator, but they are not employed by him.”
discriminant
  1. (algebra) An expression that gives information about the roots of a polynomial; for example, the expression D = b2 - 4ac determines whether the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 are real and distinct (D > 0), real and equal (D = 0) or complex (D < 0).
  2. (geometry) The invariant (on the vector space of forms of degree d in n variables) that vanishes exactly when the corresponding hypersurface in Pn-1 is singular.
discriminance
  1. The ability to discriminate or the amount by which something is discriminated
discriminateness
  1. The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
discriminativeness
  1. The condition of being discriminative
discriminability
  1. The condition of being discriminable
  2. Examples:
    1. “The blank interval separating successive stimuli was set to 100 ms to allow sufficient discriminability.”
      “Thus, the current analysis indicates that the distractor-ratio effect was strongly influenced by the discriminability of stimulus dimensions.”
      “Analog magnitude representations follow Weber's law, according to which the discriminability of two values is a function of their ratio.”
discriminations
  1. plural of discrimination
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The main purveyor is the ferrety Draco Malfoy, who brings a particularly Aryan look to his baleful glare and assorted discriminations.”
      “The physical colors were the same for the simultaneous and successive discriminations.”
      “Thus the data were recoded using more stringent criteria to permit finer discriminations.”
discriminators
  1. plural of discriminator
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Frequency of use, length of time using, and regularity of use are all significant and strong discriminators of cessation versus continued use.”
      “Law firms would not dream of excluding these de facto discriminators from their hiring schedules, though.”
      “The market discriminators today are direct operating cost, simplicity and ease of maintenance.”
discriminants
  1. plural of discriminant
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