limit.
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
Meaning & usage
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
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.
Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
The space or thing defined by limits.
That terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Ellipsis of harmonic limit.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“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.
Being a fixed limit game.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“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.
To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
We need to limit the power of the executive.
I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
To have a limit in a particular set.
The sequence limits on the point a.
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
a limiting friar
Where this word comes from
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
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