discriminative

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His work was simply plant breeding by the discriminative-restrictive method.

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  1. adjective Drawing distinctions.
  2. adjective Marked by or showing prejudice: discriminative hiring practices.

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  • White males are stereotyped as discriminative, power-hungry people. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • It combines state-of-the-art tree mining with sophisticated pruning techniques to find the most discriminative pattern in each node. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • However, rude or foul language, discriminative comments (based on ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation or the sort) or any other offensive or inappropriate behaviour will not be tolerated. —  MercoPress
  • Although some approaches, such as PCA+LDA and Null Space LDA, have been proposed to address this problem, they are all at cost of discarding some useful discriminative information. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The two kinds of complementary classifiers are integrated to preserve all the discriminative information in the feature space. bibtex-import classification evaluation feature file-import-08-12-01 nn-search pattern recognition redundancy relevance selection CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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/dɪsˈkrɪmɪnətɪv/
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