critical threshold

collocation in English

meaningsofcriticalandthreshold

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critical
adjective
uk
/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/
saying that someone or something is bad ...
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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 ofcriticalandthresholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Conversely, some treatments have been adopted when the data in no study achieved thiscriticalthreshold.
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The transition to improved confinement is linked to acriticalthresholdin the density peaking.
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When the strength of the inhibitory pulse falls below acriticalthreshold, escape from inhibition occurs.
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These currents of public opinion reached acriticalthresholdin 1906.
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An empirical approach for determining thecriticalthresholdis based on permutation tests.
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Both numbers are clearly below 9.2, thecriticalthresholdat the.01-significance level for two degrees of freedom.
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Trypanosomes are able to regulate their own density by slender to stumpy cell differentiation when their density passes acriticalthreshold.
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By repeatedly shuffling the relationships between marker genotypes and phenotypes, a series of maximum log-likelihood ratios are calculated, from the distribution of which thecriticalthresholdis determined.
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For instance, if the market impact of chartists exceeds acriticalthreshold, prices may be driven away from fundamentals.
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Conversely, the very exactness of some binary decisions can be unhelpful if the expected range of values for some attribute of an application crosses acriticalthreshold.
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Thus, it may be possible to use irrigation management in urban landscapes to maintain bark moisture above thecriticalthresholdand reduce the probability of colonization success.
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The transition to improved confinement is correlated with acriticalthresholdwith respect to the density peaking.
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A general deactivation effect of network connections due to lack of use leads to a switching off of elements once they have reached a certaincriticalthreshold.
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It is possible, though, that levels of specific deathrelated transcripts are below acriticalthresholdprior to the major burst of transcription.
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At somecriticalthreshold, new types of transactions will emerge in the form of dynamic relationships among previously unknown parties.
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However, past thecriticalthresholdlevel of interaction (four dimensions), the system begins to behave nonergodically, "trapped" (here) in a high-activity state.
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It is acriticalthresholdto be overcome.
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However, if we look at the first six months of the following year, the picture shows a dramatic improvement: thecriticalthresholdof 15,000 units was never once breached.
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