Subthreshold

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Psychology Not strong enough to be perceived or to produce a response. Used of a stimulus.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Describing a stimulus that is not strong enough to elicit a response
  • adj. Below a threshold.
  • adj. subsyndromal
  • Word Usage
    "So far, these ultralow-energy devices have operated at extremely low "subthreshold" voltages, from around 200 millivolts down to the theoretical lower limit of 36 millivolts."
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