limit
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
Noun 4 meanings
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
“There are several existing limits to executive power.”
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.
Adjective 1 meaning
Being a fixed limit game.
Verb 2 meanings
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.”
To have a limit in a particular set.
“The sequence limits on the point a.”
Etymology
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.
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LIMIT at a glance
LIMIT has 5 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (L 1 + I 1 + M 3 + I 1 + T 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,996 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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