Geiger-Müller threshold
[ gahy-ger muhl-er, -myoo-ler ]
/ ˈgaɪ gər ˈmʌl ər, -ˈmyu lər /
noun Physics.
the minimum voltage applied to an ionization chamber, as in a Geiger counter, at which the charge collected per count is independent of the nature of the ionizing event producing the count.
Also called
Geiger threshold.
Origin of Geiger-Müller threshold
named after H.
Geiger and W.
Müller, 20th-century German physicist