Term in sociology indicating the level of Melanin required in the skin at which point a person is considered "Black." It can very across different cultures and regions. In some areas of the United States it takes very little pigment for a person to be considered black thus a low threshold, whereas other areas of Africa, the Caribbean, or South America require more pigment for a person to be considered "Black." It is important to watch that determining and utilizing this terminology does not become an ethnic filter.
That city considered me Black, they seem to have a lower melanin threshold.
The minimum amount of stimulus energy that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.
It was at the absolute threshold of audibility, where it might have been real or imagined.
When a band has more past members than current members.
That band hasn't been good since they passed the Theseus threshold .
upon reaching some sort of threshold, whether a doorway, the index of a book, google, or the kitchen, usually after smoking a big fat stogey, that you stop and say to yourself, "what the fuck am I doing here?"
I took a big bong hit with Bob the line-cook out the back by the delivery entrance then went back into the kitchen opened the big door to the walk-in freezer and said to myself, "what the fuck did I come here for?" That's threshold amnesia.
how fast you heal, the lower pain threshold you have, the faster.
Wolverine has no pain threshold.
1.The moment when you're eating fast food and it suddenly no longer tastes the way it did a second ago.
2. When you're body tells you that you are done eating; with fast food however, this is much more abrupt than with other types of food.
I was starving at 10:30 at night so I went out and grabbed three chili cheese burritos from taco bell. I love those things from time to time. Then, halfway through the third burrito I took a bite and it was detestable. I hit the fast food threshold.
The minimum amount of cursing and swearing required to resolve a problem.
Jack's car stalled on the highway and refused to start until Jack reached the minimum profanity threshold.