limit

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Synonyms: licit, dimit, imit, lilit, liit, limi, nimit, ligit, simit

Antonyms: licit, dimit, imit, lilit, liit, limi, nimit, ligit, simit

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Noun

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
   • Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
4. The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
5. Fixed limit.
6. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
   • the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
7. The space or thing defined by limits.
8. That terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
9. A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
10. A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
11. The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
12. A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
13. Ellipsis of harmonic limit.

Adjective

1. Being a fixed limit game.

Verb

1. 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.
2. To have a limit in a particular set.
   • The sequence limits on the point a.
3. To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
   • a limiting friar

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