Discrimination in the original and broadest sense is the ability to distinguish one thing from another.
Business and engineering
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Discrimination testing
Discrimination testing is a technique employed in sensory analysis to determine whether there is a detectable difference among two or more products. The test uses a group of assessors (panellists) with a degree of training appropriate to the compl ...
is a technique employed in sensory analysis to determine whether there is a detectable difference among two or more products.
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Markovian discrimination
Within the probability theory Markov model, Markovian discrimination in spam filtering is a method used in CRM114 and other spam filters to model the statistical behaviors of spam and nonspam more accurately than in simple Bayesian methods. A sim ...
is a method used in spam filters to model the statistical behaviors of spam and nonspam.
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Net bias (also called data discrimination) is the differentiation of price or quality of Internet data transmission.
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Price discrimination
Price discrimination is a microeconomic pricing strategy where identical or largely similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider in different markets. Price discrimination is distinguished from product differe ...
, or price differentiation, is a pricing strategy where identical or similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider to different customers.
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Selectivity (circuit breakers) Selectivity, also known as circuit breaker discrimination, is the coordination of overcurrent protection devices so that a fault in the installation is cleared by the protection device located immediately upstream of the fault. The purpose of sele ...
(also known as ''circuit breaker discrimination'') is the coordination of overcurrent protection devices so that a fault in the installation is cleared by the protection device located immediately upstream of the fault.
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Term discrimination is a way to rank keywords in how useful they are for information retrieval.
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Word sense discrimination In computational linguistics, word-sense induction (WSI) or discrimination is an open problem of natural language processing, which concerns the automatic identification of the word sense, senses of a word (i.e. meaning (linguistics), meanings). Giv ...
is the automatic identification of the senses of a word.
Biology and psychology
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Discrimination learning
Discrimination learning is defined in psychology as the ability to respond differently to different stimuli. This type of learning is used in studies regarding operant and classical conditioning. Operant conditioning involves the modification of a ...
is a topic in the psychology of learning studying the process by which animals or people learn to make different responses to different stimuli.
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Host discrimination is the ability of some parasitoids to distinguish a host with parasites from an unparasitized host.
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Kin discrimination Kin recognition, also called kin detection, is an organism's ability to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin. In evolutionary biology and psychology, such an ability is presumed to have evolved for inbreeding avoidance, though animals d ...
is an organism's ability to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin.
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Self-discrimination in plants
In botany, a tendril is a specialized stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape used by climbing plants for support and attachment, as well as cellular invasion by parasitic plants such as ''Cuscuta''. There are many plants that have tend ...
is the ability of plants to avoid twining tendrils around themselves.
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Tactile discrimination Tactile discrimination is the ability to differentiate information through the sense of touch. The somatosensory system is the nervous system pathway that is responsible for this essential survival ability used in adaptation. There are various types ...
is the ability to differentiate information received through the sense of touch.
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texture discrimination task is a common task used in visual perception learning.
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Two-point discrimination is the ability to discern that two nearby objects touching the skin are distinct.
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Utrocular discrimination is the ability to tell which of two eyes has been stimulated by light.
Other uses
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Carbon isotope discrimination is the property of certain molecules to preferentially bind specific
isotope
Isotopes are two or more types of atoms that have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemical element), and that differ in nucleon numbers (mass numb ...
s of carbon.
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Discrimination information is a term in information theory and statistics.
See also
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Discriminant (disambiguation), a term in mathematics.
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