discriminator
Americannoun
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a person or thing that discriminates.
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Electronics. a circuit in which the output is a function of some variation of an input signal from a fixed characteristic.
noun
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an electronic circuit that converts a frequency or phase modulation into an amplitude modulation for subsequent demodulation
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an electronic circuit that has an output voltage only when the amplitude of the input pulses exceeds a predetermined value
Etymology
Origin of discriminator
From Late Latin, dating back to 1820–30; see origin at discriminate, -tor
Example Sentences
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The second "discriminator" network is then trained to distinguish between the real satellite imagery and the one synthesized by the first network.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Ultimately, the discriminator was unable to distinguish a real face from a fake one.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2022
The discriminator would be exactly the same as a real spam filter algorithm: it would simply sort all emails into either “spam” or “not spam”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2019
The Constitution, Bogren concluded, does not allow any would-be discriminator to use the First Amendment as a shield against civil rights laws.
From Slate ● May 23, 2019
Ben thought they were palms; but Ben was wrong again, for he was no great discriminator of genus or species.
From Ran Away to Sea by Mayne Reid
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