discriminative

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Moreover, it promotes the use of more comprehensive and discriminative features.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024

Our skin gives us the power of discriminative touch, which allows us to feel the pressure, texture and vibration of objects.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023

Light touch, also known as discriminative touch, is a light pressure that allows the location of a stimulus to be pinpointed.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

"I would like to reinforce that I do not and will not condone discriminative language or behaviour of any kind aimed at the Jewish community or any other community."

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2022

What is it that enables the nerve in the nose to perform its discriminative function?

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri