Limit
//ˈlɪm.ɪt//
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The word "limit" can be used as noun, verb and adjective.
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Armstrong limit Atterberg limit Betz limit Bremermann's limit Chandrasekhar limit Chu-Harrington limit Dawes resolution limit Deutsch limit Eddington limit GZK limit Gabrielli-von Karman limit Gabrielli-von Kármán limit Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit Hayashi limit Hayflick limit Karman limit Kármán limit Landauer limit McDowell limit McQ limit McQuary limit Rayleigh's resolution limit Roche limit Shannon limit Shockley-Queisser limit Sparrow's resolution limit age limit antilimit blowdown limit cash limit central limit theorem city limit(s) colimit credit limit diffraction limit direct limit dizzy limit elastic limit giddy limit in the limit limit bid limit break limit cardinal limit case limit comparison test limit cycle limit down limit inferior limit of positive stability limit order limit ordinal limit out limit point limit screw limit situation limit superior limit switch limit up limitable limital limitarian limitation limitive limitless lintel lower limit no limit outer limit overlimit pot limit prelimit push the limit quantum limit rate limit self-limiting sky's-the-limit speed limit spread limit sublimit superlimit term limit term-limit the sky is the limit the sky's the limit ticket time limit time limit time-limit to the limit unlimit unlimited upper limit von Karman limit von Kármán limit wonderful limit
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