Theseus Threshold

When a band has more past members than current members.

That band hasn't been good since they passed the Theseus threshold .

by Getzby1021 January 14, 2021

Absolute Threshold

The minimum amount of stimulus energy that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.

It was at the absolute threshold of audibility, where it might have been real or imagined.

by LaurenBrooks December 13, 2021

Mario Hedonic Threshold (MHT)

The point in a video game wherein the challenge exceeds the fun. Mario Hedonic Threshold or MHT is named for the world's favorite digital Italian plumber, but the term could apply to any challenge a gamer finds sufficiently frustrating. MHT value necessarily varies according to an individual gamer's psychological characteristics and skill set.

Subject M's Mario Hedonic Threshold (MHT) is as high as Rainbow Road. M didn't even break a sweat during that final lap! Subject L's low MHT, however, resulted in a broken TV screen and reports of a researcher being force-fed a Joy Con.

by R. Electrico November 9, 2021

Threshold

Academic speed bump

I really need to overcome that threshold to further my career.

The threshold for that paper is huge.

by Anti-Chocolate December 16, 2019

Itching my threshold

To itch ones threshold.
To itch ones genitalia.
When someones balls are itching this term is used to make a public statement that you are going to or are currently are itching them.

Comes from the totally awesome soundtrack of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in the song "threshold" (played by the fictional band sex bob-omb originally written by Beck) at the part in the end when the lyrics go "reaching my threshold" but the word "reaching" is commonly mistaken for "itching"

"maaan my threshold is REALLY itching"

dude 1: right so in 1777 george washington-
dude 2:DUDE!!! what are you doing??
dude 1:WHAT?? im itching my threshold!

by Guy who misses california March 22, 2011

threshold amnesia

upon reaching some sort of threshold, whether a doorway, the index of a book, google, or the kitchen, usually after smoking a big fat stogey, that you stop and say to yourself, "what the fuck am I doing here?"

I took a big bong hit with Bob the line-cook out the back by the delivery entrance then went back into the kitchen opened the big door to the walk-in freezer and said to myself, "what the fuck did I come here for?" That's threshold amnesia.

by Udoli Smirgl January 19, 2009

pain threshold

how fast you heal, the lower pain threshold you have, the faster.

Wolverine has no pain threshold.

by John June 11, 2006