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Distinguishability vs Distinguishment - What's the difference?

distinguishability | distinguishment |

As nouns the difference between distinguishability and distinguishment

is that distinguishability is the state of being distinguishable while distinguishment is a distinction; observation of difference.

distinguishability

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being distinguishable.
  • * Micha? Horodecki, Seth Lloyd, Andreas Winter - Quantum coding theorem from privacy and distinguishability , Open Systems and Information Dynamics, No. 15 (2008), pp. 47-69
    • The problem is separated into two parts: proof of distinguishability of codewords by receiver, and that of indistinguishability of codewords by environment (privacy).
  • * Canadian Grain Commission, Kernel visual distinguishability in western Canadian wheat classes , 2008-03-05
    • This visual characteristic is called kernel visual distinguishability , or KVD, and it is presently one of the requirements that must be met if a wheat variety is to be registered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for unrestricted registration, production and handling.

    Antonyms

    * indistinguishability

    Derived terms

    * distinguishable

    distinguishment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A distinction; observation of difference.
  • * 1865 , John Grote, Exploratio philosophica: rough notes on modern intellectual science, Part 1 , University of Cambridge, page 50:
  • *:"We notice what we notice and make it a thing'' distinguishing it from what else is within our view, ''partly'' because, doubtless, it is of such or such a size and shape: but we require more impulse to the notice and distinguishment than ''this furnishes."
  • * 1833 ; Samuel Lewis Southard, Joseph Hendrickson, Thomas L. Shotwell, Edward Hopper; Argument of Samuel L. Southard: in the case of Stacy Decow and Joseph Hendrickson versus Thomas L. Shotwell , page 157:
  • *:"And first, in your doctrines of God, whom you say is to be known and believed on, as in the distinguishment of three persons...

    • Antonyms

    * similarity

    Related terms

    * distinction

    References