limit
noun
- boundary
- value a mathematical function approaches
- characterization of harmonic complexity in music
verb
- provide an upper or lower bound
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪm.ɪt/ / /ˈlɪm.ɪʈ/ / /lɪmʈ/
adj
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.
- Being a fixed limit game.
noun
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.
- 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”
“As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.”
- The space or thing defined by limits.
“The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.”
- That terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
“the dateless limit of thy dear exile”
“The limit of your lives is out.”
- A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
“I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.”
- 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.
“Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared.”
- Ellipsis of harmonic limit.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
- 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”