Толковый словарь английского языка - threshold
Threshold
threshold
noun Etymology: Middle English thresshold, from Old English threscwald; akin to Old Norse threskjǫldr ~, Old English threscan to thresh Date: before 12th century the plank, stone, or piece of timber that lies under a door ; sill , 2. gate , door , b. end , boundary , the place or point of entering or beginning ; outset , 3. the point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be produced , a level, point, or value above which something is true or will take place and below which it is not or will not
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n. 1 a strip of wood or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room etc. 2 a point of entry or beginning (on the threshold of a new century). 3 Physiol. & Psychol. a limit below which a stimulus causes no reaction (pain threshold). 4 Physics a limit below which no reaction occurs, esp. a minimum dose of radiation producing a specified effect. 5 (often attrib.) a step in a scale of wages or taxation, usu. operative in specified conditions. Etymology: OE therscold, threscold, etc., rel. to THRASH in the sense 'tread' ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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