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Limit
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- 1 Being a fixed limit game. not-comparable
- 1 A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
"There are several existing limits to executive power."
- 2 the greatest possible degree of something wordnet
- 3 A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
"The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit."
- 4 the boundary of a specific area wordnet
- 5 Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
"Category theory defines a very general concept of limit."
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- 6 as far as something can go wordnet
- 7 The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- 8 the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed wordnet
- 9 Fixed limit.
- 10 the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity wordnet
- 11 The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
"the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country"
- 12 final or latest limiting point wordnet
- 13 The space or thing defined by limits. obsolete
"The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally."
- 14 That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. obsolete
"the dateless limit of thy dear exile"
- 15 A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance. obsolete
"I prithee, give no limits to my tongue."
- 16 A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- 17 The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- 18 A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. colloquial
"Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared."
- 19 Ellipsis of harmonic limit. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. transitive
"We need to limit the power of the executive."
- 2 place limits on (extent or amount or access) wordnet
- 3 To have a limit in a particular set. intransitive
"The sequence limits on the point a."
- 4 restrict or confine within limits wordnet
- 5 To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region. obsolete
"a limiting friar"
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- 6 decide upon or fix definitely wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
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