[thresh-ohld, thresh-hohld] 
| 1. | the sill of a doorway. |
| 2. | the entrance to a house or building. |
| 3. | any place or point of entering or beginning: the threshold of a new career. |
| 4. | Also called limen. Psychology, Physiology. 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. |
| thresh·old (thrěsh'ōld', -hōld') n.
[Middle English thresshold, from Old English therscold, threscold; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
threshold thresh·old (thrěsh'ōld', -hōld')
n.
The place or point of beginning; the outset.
The lowest point at which a stimulus begins to produce a sensation.
The minimal stimulus that produces excitation of any structure, eliciting a motor response.
Threshold
(1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4,5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4,18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered "door" and "door-post." (2.) 'Asuppim, pl. (Neh. 12:25), rendered correctly "storehouses" in the Revised Version. In 1 Chr. 26:15, 17 the Authorized Version retains the word as a proper name, while in the Revised Version it is translated "storehouses."