threshold
Threshold (v. Old high German: suelli, suuella = supporting beam) stands for:
- Railway sleeper , part of the railway superstructure
- Speed bump, structural elevation on the roadway
- Truss threshold , certain beams of a truss construction
- Landing threshold , the beginning of the runway on an airfield
- Stimulus threshold , limit value from which an external stimulus is perceived
- Threshold (geomorphology) , elevations of the earth's surface
- Bed sill , a standard structure running transversely to the direction of flow of a river
- Door threshold , base between the vertical parts of the door frame
- a synonym for sister in Berlin dialect, see family relationship # Siblings
Schwelle is the name of the following places:
- Schwelle (Salzkotten) , district of Salzkotten
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Wiktionary: threshold - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
