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What is the noun for threshold?

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threshold
  1. The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
  2. (by extension) An entrance
  3. The start of the landing area of a runway
  4. (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
  5. The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
  6. The outset of an action or project
  7. The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
  8. The point of beginning or entry
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “It is well known how beneficially people can be influenced by the conviction that they are poised on the threshold of a new age.”
      “I crossed the threshold and re-entered the house, which was buzzing with undying activity.”
      “He sailed back to England, convinced that he was on the threshold of a great discovery.”
thresholding
  1. (image processing) The process of creating a black-and-white image out of a grayscale image by setting exactly those pixels to white whose value is above a given threshold, and setting the other pixels to black.
thresholder
  1. A person who occupies the threshold between places or statuses.
threshwold
  1. Obsolete form of threshold.
thresholders
  1. plural of thresholder
thresholds
  1. plural of threshold
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Greater wax moths are tympanate pyralid moths, with four sensory cells that have similar frequency responses with different thresholds.”
      “Among the archaebacteria, the genome that is most similar to yeast at all thresholds is that of the methanogen Methanosarcina mazei.”
      “What distinguishes people with hyperacusis is not their hearing thresholds, but their reaction to sounds above threshold.”
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