Definition of Borderline intelligence

1. Noun. The minimal IQ required for someone to function normally and independently in the world (without some form of institutional assistance).

Generic synonyms: I.q., Intelligence Quotient, Iq

Lexicographical Neighbors of Borderline Intelligence

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borderline intelligence (current term)
borderline leprosy
borderline personality
borderline personality disorder
borderline personality disorders
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borderstone
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bordes
bordetella

Literary usage of Borderline intelligence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use by Lewis Madison Terman (1919)
"Of the 18 tested, 13 were feebleminded and 3 of borderline intelligence. One family furnished 6 of the feeble-minded, another 4. ..."

2. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Diagnosis: Affective deviate of slightly above the borderline intelligence. CASE No. 150. Male (Self-committed). Heredity: Father is a hard-working and ..."

3. The Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Scale for Measuring by Lewis Madison Terman (1917)
"... of deficiency among adults of somewhat inferior or borderline intelligence.' 2. The revision not only contains a much larger number of tests than any ..."

4. What Becomes of the Unmarried Mother?: A Study of 82 Cases by Alberta Sylvia Boomhower Guibord, Ida R. Parker (1922)
"Moreover, one-half this class graded above borderline intelligence, a larger proportion of mothers of better intelligence equipment than existed among those ..."

5. Assessing Psychopathology and Behavior Problems in Persons With Mental (1994)
"Level of Mental Retardation Covered: Mild mental retardation and borderline intelligence (ie, Full Scale or Verbal IQ between 55 and 83 inclusive on ..."

6. Auxiliary Education by Bruno Maennel (1909)
"The combination of an overdeveloped girl of borderline intelligence or less and a boys' gang at a critical period in their adolescence can be at once one of ..."

7. The Legacy of Vietnam Veterans and Their Families: Survivors of War edited by Dennis K. Rhoades, Michael R. Leaveck, James C. Hudson (1996)
"... Disability/ ADD** Mental Retardation borderline intelligence Cerebral Palsy Mo Developmental Disability Diagnoses only given to children who completed ..."

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