differentiator
- noun
- /ˌdɪfərɛnʃiˈeɪtər/
- In a crowded market, customer service can be an important differentiator that attracts loyal clients.
The quality of the content is the differentiator, not the length.
- The quality of the content is the differentiator, not the length.
- So that's not a differentiator either for the Pro name.
- Now that brings us to the big differentiator between the iPad Pro and the iPad Air.
- So inherently the insatiability is like the key differentiator in a lot of high performers.
- That was the differentiator between the average scorers and the aces of each profession.
- So this has always been one of my problems with Sheehan as an investment is that their key differentiator isn't any form of technological innovation.
- So it's basically front running every single major shift in the industry and that to me has been the differentiator with Netflix and the trend.
- That's probably the best differentiator that I've heard.
- I feel like I have fewer and fewer differentiators and advantages.
- But what was really the tipping point awareness wise or just in seeing the hobby where you were like this is this is the differentiator, this is what brought you back.
Examples
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And one of the our key differentiators is privacy, you know, along with personal context.
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In the intensely competitive marketplace of open systems, performance comparisons provide a key differentiator in making purchasing decisions.
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The quality of the content is the differentiator, not the length.
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So just so we're clear, money is not a differentiator in Africa, it's just money.
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And I think we know that in the UK, class is a far bigger differentiator than race.
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Then there is possibly the most important differentiator of all: size, in terms of both impact and budget.
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The growth term is another key differentiator among the three models.
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There are at least five capable winners in every final, with the only differentiator being confidence.
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I think the big differentiator with YouTube and with live streaming is the comment section.
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What one needs to look for are those differentiators that set an institution apart from all others.
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Synonyms
A quality that makes one thing different from another
A person or thing that notices differences between similar objects
A feature that makes someone or something different from others
A value or formula that helps decide which group an item belongs to
A feature that shows how one species is different from others in the same group
How Distinctive
Surface Forms
Morphology
differentiator = differentiate (transparent) = differentiate + or
Formed by adding the agentive suffix '-or' to the verb 'differentiate', yielding 'one who differentiates', which is a standard and transparent derivation.
Etymology
The word differentiator comes from different, which means 'not the same', plus the ending -ator, which means 'one who' or 'that which'. So a differentiator is a person or thing that makes something different or shows what makes one thing different from another.