Cutoff vs Threshold - What's the difference?
cutoff | threshold |
The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
A road, path of channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
A device that stops the flow of a current.
A cessation in a flow or activity.
(poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the preflop in Texas hold 'em.
(chiefly, in the plural) shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers
The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
(by extension) An entrance
The start of the landing area of a runway
(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
The outset of an action or project
The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
The point of beginning or entry
As nouns the difference between cutoff and threshold
is that cutoff is the point at which something terminates or to which it is limited while threshold is the bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.cutoff
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* cut-offNoun
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*threshold
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(wikipedia threshold)Noun
(en noun)- From all the pressure my partner has been through lately, his emotion threshold has suddenly gotten pretty low these days. I can tell because he easily loses it when he is around people or hears about anything to do with his concerns.