threshold test
collocation in Englishmeaningsofthresholdandtest
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threshold
noun
uk/ˈθreʃ.həʊld/us/ˈθreʃ.hoʊld/
the floor of an entrance to a building ...
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test
noun[C]
uk/test/us/test/
a way of discovering, by questions or practical activities, what someone knows, or what someone or something can do or ...
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(Definition ofthresholdandtestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The recent consultation document discussed a number ofthresholdtestscenarios to see whether it was going to be possible to exclude a further number of smaller businesses.
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It would clearly not pass thethresholdtest—even though the cost-benefit test showed that it was a viable financial option—and would not rank as a high priority.
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But is it not the case that it is now claimed that major advances in seismology would make possible at the very least a low yieldthresholdtestban?
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I understand clearly that this is an important openingthresholdtestfor the sequence of the clauses we are debating.
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That approach will start with thethresholdtestban treaty and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy treaty and beyond that to the remaining stages on verification issues.
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The amendment has the exceptional quality that it would apply to every court, tribunal or statutory inquiry and therefore there would be no kind ofthresholdtest.
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The spondeethresholdtestis a related test that detects the loudness at which the participant is able to repeat half of a list of two syllable words or spondees.
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While such a paper may serve as a usefulthresholdtest, it does not allow ranking of the top performers.
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I am glad to confirm that these are the two threshold tests that will apply from 1.1.
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This model proposes that a series of progressive capabilities can be quantified through a set of threshold tests.
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Threshold tests for sucrose (sweet), citric acid (sour), sodium chloride (salty), and quinine or caffeine (bitter) are frequently performed with natural stimuli.
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He contends that legal officials can invoke moral principles as laws for resolving disputes, and that they can also invoke them as threshold tests which ordinary laws must satisfy.
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