antilimit

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ limit

Noun[edit]

antilimit (plural antilimits)

  1. (mathematics) The result produced by the formula for the limit of a parameterized series applied to any parameter values in which the series is not convergent.

Adjective[edit]

antilimit (comparative more antilimit, superlative most antilimit)

  1. Opposed to a limit or limits.
    • 1995, Victor Kamber, Giving Up on Democracy: Why Term Limits Are Bad for America, →ISBN:
      A further mistake of the antilimit forces in 1992 was that they focused on loss of clout, appealing to the voter's narrow interests, rather than arguing against term limits on principle.
    • 1988, Daniel Rosenberg, New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism 1892-1923, →ISBN:
      The Black local's contract granted equal division of work at the same time that it extracted antilimit and antistrike pledges.
    • 2001, Robin L. Einhorn, Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872, →ISBN, page 239:
      For two weeks of what one alderman described as "a long, laborious and exciting struggle," Chicago's property owners did what they had been doing for twenty-five years: they petitioned and remonstrated about their particular blocks until the council drew a line that seemed to place most prolimit proprietors inside and most antilimit proprietors outside the fire Limit.