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absolute threshold

noun

  1. psychol the minimum intensity of a stimulus at which it can just be perceived Compare difference threshold

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“Clearly there is no absolute threshold,” he says.

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“I think the appropriate conclusion to draw from the simulation methods we have developed is that quantum supremacy should properly be viewed as a matter of degree, and not as an absolute threshold,” says Pednault.

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But other scientists reject the idea of any absolute threshold for significance.

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There’s no absolute threshold where physicians can determine that a given infection is severe enough, inflammatory enough, to qualify as sepsis.

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But once incomes rise beyond a modest absolute threshold, many of the things that people want are what economists call positional goods.

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