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differentiator

UK/dɪf.əˈɹɛn.ʃi.eɪ.tə/US/ˌdɪf.əˈɹɛn.ʃi.eɪ.tɚ/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — differentiate sits at #11,682Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: differentiators

A differentiator is the thing that makes you unlike your rivals. Find a real differentiator.

Price is the weakest one, since anybody can copy it by Friday. A differentiator only counts if customers can actually tell and actually care.

Definitions of differentiator

  1. 1noundifferentiatorThe thing that makes you unlike your rivals.C1

    “The only real differentiator was that somebody answered the telephone.”

differentiator is a difference.

Where it comes from

  1. New Latin

    differentiātus

  2. English

    differentiate

  3. English, today

    differentiator

From differentiate + -or. differentiate Borrowed from New Latin differentiātus, from differentiō, from differentia. From New Latin differentiātus, perfect passive participle of differentiō (see -ate and -ate), from Latin differentia (“difference”); see difference.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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differentiator in the wild

  • Two black twin points on the front wings are the clearest differentiator.

    Oak hook-tip

  • An active differentiator includes an amplifier, while a passive differentiator is made only of resistors, capacitors and inductors.

    Differentiator

  • For those enterprises whose purpose is to provide physical products, the competitive differentiator is frequently around the way they deliver services, around and in addition to the products.

    Team service management

  • In the breast, the macroscopic, microscopic, epidemiologic, and prognostic features of LELC are very similar to medullary carcinoma; EBV status is one differentiator.

    Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma

  • Instead, it was occupation that formed the primary differentiator and of the occupations it was that of agriculture which was most important.

    Damara (feudal landlord)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the differentiātus family

differentiate

differentiator — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others