threshold level
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈθrɛʃhoʊld ˈlɛvəl/
- Specialized
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nivel umbral
- Denitrification occurs at points in the interior where the oxygen concentration falls below a threshold level, which Greenwood took to be zero.
- acceptable threshold level
- threshold level of 120 dB
- minimum threshold level
Launch the app that reduces the resolution on your phone once you hit a different battery threshold level.
- Launch the app that reduces the resolution on your phone once you hit a different battery threshold level.
- But the neural trigger for breathing is when carbon dioxide hits a threshold level in the set of neurons in the brain stem and elsewhere.
- And, and we do this, we all do this and we do this at a very sub threshold level.
Examples
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The red lines indicate the threshold level used to determine whether a current pulse occurs during the read-out stage.
Academic text (2004) -
The peak voltage monitoring module features dual set points that provide the ability to establish acceptable threshold levels.
Academic text (2006) -
The bin with the largest distance from the line is chosen as the threshold level.
Academic text (2017) -
Only two of the acceptable threshold levels were significantly different between the accounting professionals.
Academic text (1991) -
However, under U.S. tax law, the threshold level of compensation is only $3,000.
Academic text (1990) -
Most of the attention here is on ensuring affordable access to some threshold level of water by all users, especially those with low incomes.
Academic text (2008) -
At what threshold level, if any, does popularity become a distinguishing, dominant factor?
Academic text (1990) -
The subjects also indicated their minimum acceptable threshold level for each attribute.
Academic text (1991) -
Jerry's primitive survival instincts took over when his fear reached a threshold level.
Fiction book (2002) -
Biologists have found that the threshold level for detecting sound varies among different species.
Synonyms
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4.4
The smallest amount of a sound or touch a person can notice
A very small change in something you can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch
The weakest amount of something that a person or animal can notice with their senses
Antonyms
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is transparently compositional: 'threshold' already denotes the minimum stimulus intensity that produces a sensation and 'level' denotes a measured amount, so 'threshold level' simply means the level corresponding to that threshold. This standard noun-noun technical combination follows regular English compounding and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Threshold level comes from the image of a threshold, the low bar at a door, and a 'level' you must reach to step over it. So a threshold level is the smallest amount you must reach before something can be 'noticed'.