thresholds
- 1Plural of threshold.
Pain thresholds vary widely from one person to the next.
The agency lowered the income thresholds that qualify families for assistance.
Note
An ordinary -s plural that carries every meaning of the singular: the sills of doorways, entrances and boundaries, the outsets of new undertakings, the marked starts of runway landing areas, and the trigger levels, usually lower limits, at which something begins. Context does the sorting. A modifying noun such as pain or income points to the measured sense, while doors, houses and runways point to the physical ones.
thresholds is a form of threshold
threshold, noun: A level, amount, or limit that must be reached or exceeded before something happens, takes effect, or applies, such as the income level at which tax becomes payable. Full entry
- Forms
- thresholdthresholds plural
- Spelling
- threshold → thresholds: add -s
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