threshold

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So far it doesn't seems to have crossed the threshold to be able to spread quickly from person to person.

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the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood"

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noun

the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood"

noun

the smallest detectable sensation

noun

the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for threshold.

noun

the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood"

noun

the smallest detectable sensation

noun

the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway"

noun

the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway

noun

a region marking a boundary

Example sentences

So far it doesn't seems to have crossed the threshold to be able to spread quickly from person to person.

Don't bet with friends because an arbitrary threshold of about $2k warrants your execution3.

$80MM is way, way past the threshold believed to be required to break the most widely deployed public-key crypto, RSA-1024.

One on the border region of legality below the decent folk morality threshold.

Repeat again with the progeny of the previous pool, until one of the candidates passes a satisficing threshold 'distance' score.

It fell immediately below the threshold for invitation to interviews.

Printed report tells assorted stories of daily activity periods, odd events, heart rate hitting programmed thresholds, etc.

It held that, when it comes to the subject matter of copyright, if a form of expression meets the threshold of being "original," that is enough to make it copyrightable no matter what its function.

If you put yourself into an environment where you are constantly challenged and are working at the top threshold of your ability, then after a few years have gone by, your skills will have increased tremendously.

Unfortunately, one of the breakers on this particular back-up power distribution circuit was incorrectly configured to open at too low a power threshold and opened when the load transferred to this circuit.

* The politically extreme parties can refund their advertising costs if they are above a certain threshold of votes, which causes some controversyEdit for clarity: of course every party can refund their expenses, but for politically extreme parties this is controversial

By the time the company has achieved some size, there's enough process and bureaucracy and projects mostly consist of what the OP described -- migrating from one framework to another, or some other incremental enhancement that's hardly pushing any sort of business of technology threshold.

What residual value would stick from such fleeing interactions with the rudiments of coding?It seems to me that, if one is to derive true value from learning to code, one needs to devote a significant level of dedicated hard work toward that effort and, if one fails to get beyond a minimal threshold, the only value gained is that of a very generalized form of knowledge that has little practical use in the real world.