Whenever you leave your home, walk from one room to another, or enter a building, you are crossing a threshold—that is, the horizontal floor piece that you cross over whenever you move through a doorway. A threshold takes you from one place into another, and when you're about to start something new, you're also on a threshold. A threshold is a point of departure or transition.
THRESHOLD definition: 1. the floor of an entrance to a building or room 2. the level or point at which you start to…. Learn more.
Threshold Curtain, Also called limen. the point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect: the threshold of consciousness; a low threshold of pain. A threshold is an amount, level, or limit on a scale. When the threshold is reached, something else happens or changes. any point of beginning: He was on the threshold of a new career.
Threshold Curtain, Physiology, Psychology the point at which something begins to take effect: Her dream was hovering on the threshold of consciousness. Noun threshold (plural thresholds) The lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill. Synonyms: doorsill, doorstep (by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house. There are 11 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun threshold, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
