discriminator
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who discriminates, as:
noun
A person who discriminates, as:
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "keen discriminator"
- "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 […]"
- "I am not a discriminator"
- "Colour is not an effective discriminator when it comes to the spiciness of food."
- "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."
- "An especially strong warranty can be a discriminator in some marketplaces."
Etymology
Etymology tree English discriminate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English discriminator From discriminate + -or.