Discriminator vs Discriminant - What's the difference?
discriminator | discriminant |
A person who discriminates or differentiates
(physics) Any of several electronic devices that convert some property of a signal into an amplitude whose value is proportional to the difference between the value of the input signal and that of a standard
A feature of the seller's offering that: 1) differs from a competitor's offering and 2) is important to this buyer
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(algebra) An expression that gives information about the roots of a polynomial; for example, the expression D = b2 - 4ac'' determines whether the roots of the quadratic equation ''ax2 + bx + c = 0'' are real and distinct (''D'' > 0), real and equal (''D'' = 0) or complex (''D < 0).
The invariant (on the vector space of forms of degree d'' in ''n'' variables) that vanishes exactly when the corresponding hypersurface in P''n -1 is singular.