Discrimination (between things)

Discrimination in the broadest sense is the ability to distinguish one thing from another.

Business and engineering

Discrimination testing is a technique employed in sensory analysis to determine whether there is a detectable difference among two or more products.
Markovian discrimination is a method used in spam filters to model the statistical behaviors of spam and nonspam.
Net bias (also called data discrimination) is the differentiation of price or quality of Internet data transmission.
Price discrimination, or price differentiation, is a pricing strategy where identical or similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider to different customers.
Term discrimination is a way to rank keywords in how useful they are for information retrieval.

Discrimination information is a term in information theory and statistics.
Discrimination learning is a topic in the psychology of learning studying the process by which animals or people learn to make different responses to different stimuli.
Tactile discrimination is the ability to differentiate information received through the sense of touch.
The texture discrimination task is a common task used in visual perception learning.
Two-point discrimination is the ability to discern that two nearby objects touching the skin are distinct.