discriminator
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7.9
- noun
- /dɪsˈkrɪmɪneɪtər/
:
discriminador
- This study further demonstrated that literacy features in spoken narratives are reliable discriminators of LI.
- a significant discriminator
- an effective discriminator
- a good discriminator
Examples
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However, in certain circumstances, demographic data might be used as a discriminator because of the type of transaction being processed.
Academic text (1991) -
And the key discriminator that makes these children different is the presence or degree to which they're vaccinated.
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Typically, customer payment history and credit terms in a customer record provide better discriminators than customer name and address.
Academic text (1991) -
The research literature suggests that the key discriminator for parental level of education is based on either having taken or not having taken college courses.
Academic text (2007) -
A criterion that has proved to be an important discriminator of mass and attentive public attitudes in the Soviet Union is that of age.
Academic text (1990) -
For instance, in a hospital information system, a very good discriminator for the correctness of a record reflecting an ordered pregnancy test would be the demographic variable sex.
Academic text (1991) -
From a qualitative standpoint, an examination of the data supports the view that the psychological variables were better discriminators of individuals' responses than was heart rate.
Academic text (2005) -
More pragmatically, the verification mechanism may be improved by adding or deleting fields from the mechanism that are poor discriminators or by tightening the constraints on some field values given the values of other fields.
Academic text (1991) -
As in previous studies (Greenhalgh & Strong, 2001; Justice et al., 2010), the indices of linguistic cohesion examined here were significant discriminators, but principally at the younger ages.
Academic text (2012) -
A good teacher is often a skilled discriminator who can identify the individual needs of their students.
Synonyms
5
4.1
A person who separates people or things into groups
3
7.2
A quality that makes one product, person, or idea different
1
7.5
A person who can notice small differences and good quality in things
1
6.7
A thing like a word or tool that shows how two things differ
1
8.1
Someone or something that shows main parts and edges of an object
A person who arranges things into groups
A person or machine that sorts things into groups
A person who sorts things into groups, like items or information
Surface Forms
Morphology
discriminator = discriminate (transparent) = discriminate + or
Formed by adding the agentive suffix '-or' to the verb 'discriminate', yielding a person or thing that discriminates; meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
Discriminator comes from Latin parts dis- 'apart' and crimin- 'separate' or 'judge', so it originally means someone or something that 'puts things apart'. That's why a discriminator is a person or device that notices differences and tells things apart.