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limiar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • threshold noun The strip or slab at the bottom of a doorway that you step over to enter.

Senses

limiar is used for these senses in English:

  • liminal (anthropology, literary theory) Pertaining to or in a state that is in-between or transitional between two (or more) other states, while belonging to neither; pertaining to or in a state such as to be neither definitively in a particular other state or category nor definitively outside it.
  • threshold (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.

threshold — full definition

  1. noun The strip or slab at the bottom of a doorway that you step over to enter.
  2. noun The point at which something begins, or the level at which an effect kicks in.
  3. noun The income level at which you start paying a particular rate of tax.

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