underthreshold

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Positioned below a threshold.

  2. 2.

    Being below the threshold or outside of the ordinary limits of consciousness; subconscious; subliminal.

    Accordingly, it represents an underthreshold load in trained persons, and no endocrine response was observed.

词源

From under- + threshold, probably a calque of German unterschwellig (“subliminal”, literally “under-threshold”), from unter- (“under-”) + Schwelle (“threshold”). More at under, sill.

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