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Definition of Limen
1. Noun. The smallest detectable sensation.
Generic synonyms: Aesthesis, Esthesis, Sensation, Sense Datum, Sense Experience, Sense Impression
Specialized synonyms: Absolute Threshold, Difference Limen, Difference Threshold, Differential Limen, Differential Threshold
Definition of Limen
1. a sensory threshold [n -MENS or -MINA]
Medical Definition of Limen
1. Entrance; the external opening of a canal or space, such as limen insulae. Synonym: threshold. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limen
Literary usage of Limen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"... that the dependence of the upper tonal limen upon the intensity of the stimulus
resembles the relationship that holds for the retinal color zones, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In addition to the initial limen, duration in each sense has a difference ...
Observations on the initial limen, difference-limen and terminal stimulus for ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"But it is doubtful whether these figures, expressing as they do the limen for
separation of points, give us any indication of the least visible extent ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"On the Effect of Adaptation on the Température Difference limen: ... The effect
of adaptation to different temperatures on the difference limen for 40° C., ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"A reference to Miss Thompson's curves shows that five of her twenty-five male
subjects gave a limen for sweet as low as that of the present subject; ..."
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