discriminator

discriminate +‎ -or

discriminator (plural discriminators)

1. A person who discriminates or differentiates.
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.

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.

• doctrinairism

From discrīminō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dis.kriː.miˈnaː.tor/, [dɪs.kriː.mɪˈnaː.tɔr]

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.

discrīminātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of discrīminō
2. 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016