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discrimination |dis?krim??n?SH?n|
noun
1 the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex: victims of racial discrimination | discrimination against homosexuals.
2 recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another: discrimination between right and wrong | young children have difficulties in making fine discriminations.
• the ability to discern what is of high quality; good judgment or taste: those who could afford to buy showed little taste or discrimination.
• Psychology the ability to distinguish between different stimuli: [ as modifier ] : discrimination learning.
3 Electronics the selection of a signal having a required characteristic, such as frequency or amplitude, by means of a discriminator that rejects all unwanted signals.