threshold (>)

Use the threshold operator (>) in two ways:

• at the expression level

• at the query term level

The threshold operator at the expression level eliminates documents in the result set that score below a threshold number.

The threshold operator at the query term level selects a document based on how a term scores in the document.

Syntax

Syntax	Description
expression>n term>n	Returns only those documents in the result set that score above the threshold n. Within an expression, returns documents that contain the query term with score of at least n.

Examples

At the expression level, to search for documents that contain relational databases and to return only documents that score greater than 75, use the following expression:

'relational databases > 75'

At the query term level, to select documents that have at least a score of 30 for lion and contain tiger, use the following expression:

'(lion > 30) and tiger'