fine discrimination

Frequency: 5.03.1 per million words

The ability to notice small but important differences.

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Examples (10)

  • A professional wine taster must have a palate capable of fine discrimination between different vintages.
  • The art critic's review demonstrated a fine discrimination in analyzing the artist's brushwork.
  • Young children often struggle to make a fine discrimination between the sounds 'p' and 'b'.
  • The experiment requires a fine discrimination of temperature changes, down to a hundredth of a degree.
  • To tune a violin perfectly requires a fine discrimination of pitch.
  • Debating moral dilemmas often involves making a fine discrimination between competing ethical principles.
  • Identifying mushroom species requires fine discrimination, as some edible and poisonous types look very similar.
  • The new sensor has the fine discrimination needed to detect minute amounts of pollutants in the air.
  • His research involved a fine discrimination between genuine and feigned emotional expressions.
  • With years of practice, she developed the fine discrimination necessary to identify counterfeit currency.