Usually means: Limit or level triggering a response.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. threshold: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. threshold, threshold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. threshold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. threshold: Collins English Dictionary
  5. threshold: Vocabulary.com
  6. Threshold, threshold: Wordnik
  7. threshold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. threshold: Wiktionary
  9. threshold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. threshold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. threshold: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Threshold, threshold: Dictionary.com
  13. threshold: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. threshold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Threshold, Threshold (DC Comics), Threshold (HammerFall album), Threshold (Sara Douglass novel), Threshold (Stargate SG-1), Threshold (TV series), Threshold (album), Threshold (band), Threshold (door), Threshold (video game), Threshold: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Threshold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. threshold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. threshold: Rhymezone
  19. threshold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. threshold: Free Dictionary
  21. threshold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. THRESHOLD: Ye Olde English Sayings
  23. threshold: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. threshold: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Threshold: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Threshold: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. threshold: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. threshold: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  4. threshold: Medical dictionary
  5. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. threshold: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Threshold: Easton Bible
  2. Threshold: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. threshold: Electronics
  2. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  4. Threshold: Construction Glossary
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
noun:  (by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
noun:  (by extension) Any end or boundary.
noun:  (figurative) The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
noun:  (aviation) The start of the landing area of a runway.
noun:  (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
noun:  The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
noun:  The point where one is mentally or physically vulnerable in response to a provocation or to other nuisances.

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