limit

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(noun) From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin limes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”).

(verb) From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin limitare (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from limes; see noun.

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limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)

  1. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
    We need to limit the power of the executive.
    I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
  2. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
    The sequence limits on the point a.

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restrict

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limit (plural: limits)

  1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
    There are several existing limits to executive power.
    Two drinks is my limit tonight.
  2. (mathematics) 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. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
    Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
  4. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
  5. The final, utmost, or furthest point.

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boundary
mathematics: value to which a sequence converges
mathematics: abstraction of this concept of limit

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limit (not comparable)

  1. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.

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limit m.

  1. limit

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From German Limit.

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lìmit m. (Cyrillic spelling лѝмит)

  1. boundary
  2. boundary that cannot be surpassed

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    declension of limit
singular plural
nominative limit limiti
genitive limita limita
dative limitu limitima
accusative limit limite
vocative limite limiti
locative limitu limitima
instrumental limitom limitima
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