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absolute threshold

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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