fine discrimination
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The ability to notice small but important differences.
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- 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.