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diˈscriminating, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ing2.]
1. That discriminates (sense 1); distinguishing, making or constituting a distinction, or affording a ground for distinction.
1647Trapp Comm. Epistles 102 In these shedding and discriminating times. a1677Hale True Relig. iii. (1684) 38 Each Party espousing some odd Discriminating Habits. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 81 The discriminating mark of this disease. 1838Tupper Prov. Philos., Gifts 228 A discriminating test Separating honesty from falsehood.
2. That discriminates (sense 2); that perceives or notes distinctions with accuracy; possessing discrimination or discernment.
1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. iii. 102 The discriminating outline of a caricature. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 17 A sound and discriminating judgment. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 172 No man observed the varieties of character with a more discriminating eye.
3. discriminating duty or discriminating rate: one that varies in amount according to the country or place whence the merchandise is imported or carried, or according to the persons rated; a differential duty or rate.
1845–52McCulloch Taxation ii. v. 218 The 7 & 8 Victoria..reduced the duty on foreign sugar..leaving a discriminating duty of 10s. 6d. a cwt. in favour of our own sugars. 1870Daily News 16 Apr., Is it not absurd to revive a distinguishing rate, preferential and discriminating, in favour of one class of dealers and against another?
4. Math. discriminating circle, in the Theory of Functions with essential singularities, the circle on which all the singularities of another connected function lie. [= Ger. Grenzkreis.] discriminating cubic, a cubic equation whose roots are the reciprocal of the principal radii vectores of a quadric surface referred to its centre.
1874Salmon Geom. three Dimensions (ed. 3) 58 If two roots of the discriminating cubic vanish, the equation..represents a cylinder whose base is a parabola. 1893Forsyth Th. Functions vi. §71. 111 To divide the plane of the modified variable ζ into two portions..The boundary..is a circle of finite radius, called the discriminating circle of the function..All the singularities (and the branch-points, if any) lie on the discriminating circle.
Hence diˈscriminatingly adv., in a discriminating way, with discrimination.
1855Bain Senses & Int. iii. i. §65 The ear must be discriminatingly sensitive to pitch, and to the harmonies and discords of different pitches. 1856Kingsley Misc., Froude's Hist. Eng. II. 47 It is written as history should be, discriminatingly, patiently, and yet lovingly and genially. |