threshold
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[edit] Etymology
From Old English þrescold (“doorsill", "point of entering”), from þrescan (“tread", "trample”)
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[edit] Noun
threshold (plural thresholds)
- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- (by extension) An entrance
- The start of the landing area of a runway
- (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit
- The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
- The outset of an action or project
- The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
- From all the pressure my partner has been through lately, his emotion threshold has suddenly gotten pretty low these days. I can tell because he easily loses it when he is around people or hears about anything to do with his concerns.
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bottom-most part of a doorway
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entrance
point at which an action is triggered
income at which income tax becomes due
outset of an action or project
point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general
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