A threshold is an amount, level, or limit on a scale. When the threshold is reached, something else happens or changes.
Whenever you leave your home, walk from one room to another, or enter a building, you are crossing a threshold—that is, the horizontal floor piece that you cross over whenever you move through a doorway.
THRESHOLD definition: 1. the floor of an entrance to a building or room 2. the level or point at which you start to…. Learn more.
A threshold takes you from one place into another, and when you're about to start something new, you're also on a threshold. A threshold is a point of departure or transition.
Definition of threshold noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Also called limen. the point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect: the threshold of consciousness; a low threshold of pain.
(aviation) 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 point where one is mentally or physically vulnerable in response to a provocation or to other nuisances.
any point of beginning: He was on the threshold of a new career. Physiology, Psychology the point at which something begins to take effect: Her dream was hovering on the threshold of consciousness.
A threshold takes you from one place into another, and when you're about to start something new, you're also on a threshold. A threshold is a point of departure or transition. Graduation can mark a threshold — when you graduate from circus school, you're standing at the threshold of your new career as a trapeze artist.