discriminator

discriminator
/di skrim"euh nay'teuhr/, n.
1. a person or thing that discriminates.
2. Electronics. a circuit in which the output is a function of some variation of an input signal from a fixed characteristic.
[1820-30; < LL; see DISCRIMINATE, -TOR]

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