The smallest amount of exposure levels that will cause a specific and measured effect.
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THRESHOLD DOSE 50 (TD50)
Chronic dose rate that would cause tumours to be produced by 50% of test animals by the end of the regular life span for that species.
THRESHOLD EFFECT
1. General. A system’s change of state when a limit critical for performance is crossed.2. Marketing. Effects of an advertising campaign bringing about recognition of a brand by a sales […]
THRESHOLD GOAL
Performance or achievement that is at the minimum level of acceptance.
THRESHOLD KNOWLEDGE TEST (TKT)
Test given to students before the development of a course of instruction to determine what should be in the course.
THRESHOLD LEVEL
Radical changes are possible after this point is reached.
THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUE (TLV)
ACGIH term for concentration of an airborne substance that if exposed to for 8 hours each working day is still protected.
THRIFT PLAN
Plan for retirement including an employee savings feature.
THRITHING
In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a divisiou of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modern “riding,” which […]
THROAT
In medical Jurisprudence . The front or anterior part of the neck. Where one was indicted for murder by “cutting the throat” of the deceased, it was held that the […]
THROUGH
This word is sometimes equivalent to “over;” as in a statute in reference to laying out a road “through” certain grounds. Ilyde Park v. Oakwoods Cemetery Ass’n, 119 111. 147, […]
THROUGH BILL OF LADING (B/L)
B/L issued for the containerized door-to-door shipment that will use different modes of transport between the origin and destination .
THROUGH FLIGHT
Flight from origin to destination with one or more stops.
THROUGH RATE
Charge for a flight involving more than a single airline and changing air craft.
THROUGH THE LINE ADVERTISING (TTL)
Using mass advertising to form a customer data base that can be used for direct marketing activities.
THROUGHPUT
1. General. Productivity of a process, machine, procedure or system over a period of time and is expressed as a figure of merit such as output per hour, cash turnover […]
THROUGHPUT CONTRACT
Take or pay contract in gas and oil industry often used as an indirect guarantee for financing.
THROUGHPUT COSTING
Costing method for products using unit level costs.
THROUGHPUT TIME
Time needed for material, subassembly or part to move through a manufacturing process. Full name is manufacturing throughput time .
THROW OUT
To ignore, (a bill of indictment .)
THROWAWAY
Handbill or flier handed out to people on the street, placed in magazines and papers as a way of promotion.
THRUSTING
Within the meaning of a criminal statute, “thrusting” is not necessarily an attack with a pointed weapon; It means pushing or driving with force, whether the point of the weapon […]
THRYMSA
A Saxon coin worth four- pence. Du Fresne.
THUDE-WEALD
A woodward, or person that looks after a wood.
THUMBNAIL IMAGE
1. Commercial printing. A small rough sketch representing a proposed layout. Also called squish, French for sketch. 2. Desktop printing. A smaller image of a page or graphic making it […]