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latency
English
Etymology
latent +? -cy
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?le?.t?n.si/
Noun
latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)
- The state of being latent.
- (electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
Synonyms
- (state of being latent): hiddenness, invisibility
- lag (not physics- or electronic gaming-related)
- delay
Translations
Anagrams
- Cantley
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threshold
English
Etymology
From Middle English threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þres?old, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þresk?þlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, *þreskwan? (“to thresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, turn”). Cognate with Low German Drüssel (“threshold”), dialectal German Drischaufel, Drissufle, Trüschübel (“threshold”), Danish tærskel (“threshold”), Swedish tröskel (“threshold”), dialectal Swedish träskvald (“threshold”), Icelandic þröskuldur (“threshold”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???e?(h)??ld/
- (US) IPA(key): /?????(h)o?ld/
Noun
threshold (plural thresholds)
- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- (by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
- (by extension) Any end or boundary.
- (figuratively) The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
- I arrived at last, did obeisance to my uncle, and told him everything. He thought it over and said: ' […] At the threshold of death, how dare I give you permission to go to England, to cross the seas? But I will not stand in your way. It is your mother's permission which really matters. If she permit you, then godspeed! Tell her I will not interfere. You will go with my blessings.'
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
- (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 mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
Derived terms
- thresholding
- thresholdless
- thresholdlike
(Expressions:)
- displaced threshold
- Micawber threshold
- threshold braking
- threshold effect
- threshold potential
- threshold worker
Antonyms
- (bottom-most part of a doorway): lintel
Translations
threshold From the web:
- what threshold means
- what threshold do i need
- what threshold for herd immunity
- what threshold frequency
- what threshold is inheritance tax
- what is threshold requirements
- what is the minimum threshold
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