low threshold
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflowandthreshold
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low
adjective
uk/ləʊ/us/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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threshold
noun
uk/ˈθreʃ.həʊld/us/ˈθreʃ.hoʊld/
the floor of an entrance to a building ...
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(Definition oflowandthresholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The rationale for thelowthresholdage is that ageing is a process, not a state.
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Alowthresholdwould result in an unmanageable number of cases for analysis.
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We chose thislowthresholdfor two reasons.
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This is not surprising, because our simulations were performed with an arbitrarylowthresholdof zero.
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However, thislowthresholdis in keeping with a previous decision analysis (109).
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This provides the upswing of thelowthresholdspike.
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Now thelowthresholdalso implies a smaller utility because of the new preferences.
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It has been shown that pyranine can lase in the absence of any optical external mirror cavity, this happens at verylowthreshold, and in different solvents.
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These embryos are blocked, more than likely, because of a criticallylowthresholdof transcription, possibly in relation to delayed genomic activation.
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A high threshold was used to detect bright objects around the soma and alowthresholdwas used to detect dimmer objects in the processes.
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Units that have alowthresholdfor performing blood cultures are likely to identify more of these cases.
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