threshold
The lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
Other meanings
An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
Any end or boundary.
Related words
- bithreshold
- infrathreshold
- perithreshold
- photothreshold
- stereothreshold
- subthreshold
- superthreshold
- suprathreshold
- thresholded
- thresholder
- underthreshold
- thresholding
Word history
From Old English "þresċold" (þresċold, þerxold, þrexwold).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “threshold” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.