absolute threshold
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“There is an absolute threshold below which people can’t hear things,” Shinn-Cunningham told me.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
Though she could not define an absolute threshold, she said that once a group gets beyond, 1,000, 2,000 or even 5,000 members, “things start getting chaotic.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2018
But other scientists reject the idea of any absolute threshold for significance.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 25, 2017
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