discriminator
English edit
Etymology edit
discriminate + -or
Noun edit
discriminator (plural discriminators)
- A person who discriminates, as:
- A person who differentiates things or concepts.
- Synonym: differentiator
- keen discriminator
- 1871, The British Quarterly Review, volume 54, page 279:
- 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 […]
- A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.
- I am not a discriminator
- A person who differentiates things or concepts.
- 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.
- (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.
- (marketing) A feature of the seller's offering that differs from a competitor's offering and is important to the buyer in question.
- Synonym: differentiator
- An especially strong warranty can be a discriminator in some marketplaces.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
person who discriminates
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Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dis.kriː.miˈnaː.tor/, [d̪ɪs̠kriːmɪˈnäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dis.kri.miˈna.tor/, [d̪iskrimiˈnäːt̪or]
Etymology 1 edit
From discrīminō + -tor.
Noun edit
discrīminātor m (genitive discrīminātōris); third declension
- (Late Latin) one who distinguishes or discriminates
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | discrīminātor | discrīminātōrēs |
Genitive | discrīminātōris | discrīminātōrum |
Dative | discrīminātōrī | discrīminātōribus |
Accusative | discrīminātōrem | discrīminātōrēs |
Ablative | discrīminātōre | discrīminātōribus |
Vocative | discrīminātor | discrīminātōrēs |
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
discrīminātor
References edit
- “discriminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- discriminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- discriminator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French discriminateur.
Noun edit
discriminator n (plural discriminatoare)
Declension edit
Declension of discriminator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) discriminator | discriminatorul | (niște) discriminatoare | discriminatoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) discriminator | discriminatorului | (unor) discriminatoare | discriminatoarelor |
vocative | discriminatorule | discriminatoarelor |