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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that discriminates.
- noun Electronics A device that converts a property of an input signal, such as frequency or phase, into an amplitude variation, depending on how the signal differs from a standard or reference signal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who discriminates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who discriminates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
discriminates ordifferentiates - noun physics Any of several
electronic devices that convert some property of asignal into anamplitude whose value is proportional to the difference between the value of the input signal and that of astandard - noun A feature of the seller's offering that: 1) differs from a competitor's offering and 2) is important to this buyer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who (or that which) differentiates
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For the purposes of this Act, a person (in this subsection referred to as the discriminator) discriminates against another person (in this subsection referred to as the aggrieved person) on the ground of the marital status of the aggrieved person if, by reason of:
Archive 2006-03-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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For the purposes of this Act, a person (in this subsection referred to as the discriminator) discriminates against another person (in this subsection referred to as the aggrieved person) on the ground of the marital status of the aggrieved person if, by reason of:
Round Two Zoe Brain 2006
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O'Brien may feel that her rights were violated and that the university's actions were discriminator, which is where the problem comes in.
JSOnline.com 2010
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The story is written with a nineteenth-century Sherlockian flavor, although the "discriminator" hero Henghis Hapthorn lacks Holmes 'deduction skills.
REVIEW: The Gist Hunter and Other Stories by Matthew Hughes 2007
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The story is written with a nineteenth-century Sherlockian flavor, although the "discriminator" hero Henghis Hapthorn lacks Holmes 'deduction skills.
REVIEW: Best Short Novels: 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2006
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The story is written with a nineteenth-century Sherlockian flavor, although the "discriminator" hero Henghis Hapthorn lacks Holmes 'deduction skills.
REVIEW: Best Short Novels: 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2006
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Yeah they come in one by one, they come in all together in groups (lately he's been growing in his brain a kind of discriminator circuit, learning how to separate them out).
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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· Query. with_polymorphic () now accepts a third argument "discriminator" which will replace the value of mapper. polymorphic_on for that query.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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· Query. with_polymorphic () now accepts a third argument "discriminator" which will replace the value of mapper. polymorphic_on for that query.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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Fifth, since age is * not* a valid pool discriminator, move medicare recipients into the plan.
Arlo's Single Payer Plan, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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