discrimen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A visible dividing line where two structures come together.

   “Mid-ventrally the sternopleurites unite in a suture, the discrimen, whose inflection forms the very high transparent lamella of the discrimen.”

2. isim A distinction, particularity, or distinguishing feature.
3. isim A crisis or turning point; A situation that changes how the future will unfold.

   “But civil war creates as many boundaries as it destroys: its keynote is division, and it is itself a discrimen.”

4. isim A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.

   “The discrimen, or pattern, that each theologian eventually chooses is his or her own distinctive construal of the discrimen that guides his or her critical theological judgements.”