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sensory threshold

5.01  absolute threshold; absolute limen; sensory threshold; stimulus threshold. Minimum stimulus that evokes a response in a specified fraction of the trials.

Annotation         For hearing, the sound pressure level that establishes a threshold of audibility at a specified frequency is an example of an absolute threshold. See also C11.21.

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