[1720–30; discrimin(ate) + -able]This word is first recorded in the period 1720–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: berm, cordon bleu, deadwood, joker, saloon-able is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,”associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition tostems of any origin (teachable; photographable)
Examples of 'discriminable' in a sentence
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Motion direction could be either discriminable (suprathreshold motion) or non-discriminable(threshold motion).
Andrea ePavan, Māris eSkujevskis, Giosuè eBaggio 2013, 'Motion words selectively modulate direction discrimination sensitivity for thresholdmotion', Frontiers in Human Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00134/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Colour differences were equated in just-noticeable differences to be equally discriminable.
Lewis Forder, Xun He, Anna Franklin 2017, 'Colour categories are reflected in sensory stages of colour perception when stimulusissues are resolved.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5444794?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Natural textures have characteristic image statistics that make them discriminable from unnatural textures.
Benjamin J Balas 2012, 'Contrast-negation and texture synthesis differentially disrupt natural texture appearance',Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00515/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Patient feedback may be unreliable and fittings inefficient if adjustments are not discriminable.
Benjamin Caswell-Midwinter, William M. Whitmer 2019, 'Discrimination of Gain Increments in Speech-Shaped Noises', Trends in Hearinghttps://doi.org/10.1177/2331216518820220. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thus, previously discriminable cues become more functionally interchangeable.
Aaron M Jasnow, Patrick K Cullen, David C Riccio 2012, 'Remembering another dimension of forgetting', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00175/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Furthermore, our work suggests that network recurrence additionally enhances the network's ability to provide discriminable population patterns.
Chun-Wei Yuan, Leila Khouri, Benedikt Grothe, Christian Leibold 2014, 'Neuronal Adaptation Translates Stimulus Gaps into a Population Code', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0095705. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The smallest discriminable change of source location was found to be about two times finer in azimuth than in elevation.
Avinash D. S. Bala, Matthew W. Spitzer, Terry T. Takahashi 2007, 'Auditory Spatial Acuity Approximates the Resolving Power of Space-Specific Neurons',PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0000675. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Hard training required observers to discriminate highly similar global forms, while easy training to judge clearly discriminable patterns.
Adrian eGarcia, Shu-Guang eKuai, Zoe eKourtzi 2013, 'Differences in the time course of learning for hard compared to easy training', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00110/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Discrete movements have a definite beginning and end, whereas continuous movements do not have such discriminable end points.
Raoul Huys, Breanna E Studenka, Nicole L Rheaume, Howard N Zelaznik, Viktor K Jirsa 2008, 'Distinct timing mechanisms produce discrete and continuous movements.', PLoS Computational Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2329590?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thus, the regions are highly discriminable and less sensitive to confusion and false alarm than the traditional approaches.
Petia Radeva, Oriol Pujol, Sergio Escalera 2008, 'Detection of Complex Salient Regions', EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processinghttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/451389. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)