discriminant
Meaning of discriminant
noun
- a distinguishing feature or characteristic.
anaemia is commonly present in patients with both conditions, and is therefore not a helpful discriminant
mid 19th century (in the sense ‘showing discernment’): from Latin discriminant- ‘distinguishing between’, from the verb discriminare (see discriminate).
Information about discriminant
- It is a name.
- The plural form of discriminant is: discriminants.
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Hyphenation of discriminant
dis-crim-i-nant
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- discriminant is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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