discriminator

From discriminate +‎ -or.

discriminator (plural discriminators)

1. A person who discriminates, as:
   1. 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 […]

   2. A person who acts unfairly through prejudice.

      I am not a discriminator

2. 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.

   • 2018 December 13, Rui Gong, Wen Li, Yuhua Chen, Luc Van Gool, “DLOW: Domain Flow for Adaptation and Generalization”, in arXiv‎^[1], page 2481‎^[2]:

     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.

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.

   Synonym: differentiator

   An especially strong warranty can be a discriminator in some marketplaces.

• doctrinairism

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪs.kriː.mɪˈnaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪is.kri.miˈnaː.t̪or]

From discrīminō +‎ -tor.

discrīminātor m (genitive discrīminātōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) one who distinguishes or discriminates
   • 354 CE – 430 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, In epistolam Joannis ad Parthos tractatus 20.12

Third-declension noun.

discrīminātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of discrīminō

• “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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from French discriminateur.

discriminator n (plural discriminatoare)

1. discriminator