Discrimination in the original and broadest sense is the ability to distinguish one thing from another.

Business and engineering

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. *

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. *

Net bias Net bias (or network bias) is the counter-principle to net neutrality, which indicates differentiation or discrimination of price and the quality of content or applications on the Internet by ISPs. Similar terms include data discrimination, digita ...

(also called data discrimination) is the differentiation of price or quality of Internet data transmission. *

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 different ...

, 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. * Selectivity (circuit breakers) (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. *

Term discrimination Term discrimination is a way to rank keywords in how useful they are for information retrieval. Overview This is a method similar to tf-idf but it deals with finding keywords suitable for information retrieval and ones that are not. Please ref ...

is a way to rank keywords in how useful they are for information retrieval. * Word sense discrimination is the automatic identification of the senses of a word.

Biology and psychology

* Discrimination learning is a topic in the psychology of learning studying the process by which animals or people learn to make different responses to different stimuli. *

Host discrimination Superparasitism is a form of parasitism in which the host (typically an insect larva such as a caterpillar) is attacked more than once by a single species of parasitoid. Multiparasitism or coinfection, on the other hand, occurs when the host has be ...

is the ability of some parasitoids to distinguish a host with parasites from an unparasitized host. * Kin discrimination is an organism's ability to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin. * Self-discrimination in plants is the ability of plants to avoid twining tendrils around themselves. *

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. * The

texture discrimination task The ''texture discrimination task'' is a common task used in visual perception learning. In this task, the subject must respond to the central letter task (in order to ensure that the subject remains fixated on the letter) and then identify the or ...

is a common task used in visual perception learning. *

Two-point discrimination Two-point discrimination (2PD) is the ability to discern that two nearby objects touching the skin are truly two distinct points, not one. It is often tested with two sharp points during a neurological examination and is assumed to reflect how fi ...

is the ability to discern that two nearby objects touching the skin are distinct. * Utrocular discrimination is the ability to tell which of two eyes has been stimulated by light.

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Carbon isotope discrimination Biological carbon fixation or сarbon assimilation is the process by which inorganic carbon (particularly in the form of carbon dioxide) is converted to organic compounds by living organisms. The compounds are then used to store energy and as ...

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 number ...

s of carbon. * Discrimination information is a term in information theory and statistics.

Business and engineering

Biology and psychology

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