discriminator
/dɪˈskrɪmɪˌneɪtər/
noun
- A person who treats someone unfairly because of their group, identity, or characteristics.
- A discriminator judges people based on their race rather than their abilities.
- The company was sued for being a discriminator against older job applicants.
- She refused to work for a known discriminator who paid women less than men.
- A device or circuit that distinguishes between different signals or frequencies.
- The radio uses a frequency discriminator to separate the audio signal from the carrier wave.
- A voltage discriminator helps the sensor detect whether the input is above or below a threshold.
- Engineers installed a discriminator in the system to filter out noise from the data stream.
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