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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In psychophysics, a stimulus-difference which must be transcended if the larger (smaller) of the two stimuli compared is to be adjudged much larger (much smaller) than the smaller (larger) stimulus.

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  • I hate it when the bartender overlimens my mojito...

    *makes puckered-up face*

    June 30, 2011

  • *guffaw*

    July 1, 2011