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