limit

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See also: Limit and límit

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪmɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪmɪt

Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
    Synonyms: inverse limit, projective limit
    Hyponyms: terminal object, categorical product, pullback, equalizer, identity morphism
  5. (poker) 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
    • 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
      As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
    • 2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 59:
      "Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."
  7. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
  8. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  9. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
  10. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  11. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
  12. (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
    • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 63:
      Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared.
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Descendants
  • German: Limit
Translations

Adjective

limit (not comparable)

  1. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.

See also

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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, to set boundaries.
    We need to limit the power of the executive.
    I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
    • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
      [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
  2. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
    The sequence limits on the point a.
  3. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
    a limiting friar
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Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English limit.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlimit]
  • Hyphenation: li‧mit
  • Rhymes: -it

Noun

limit (plural limitek)

  1. limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative limit limitek
accusative limitet limiteket
dative limitnek limiteknek
instrumental limittel limitekkel
causal-final limitért limitekért
translative limitté limitekké
terminative limitig limitekig
essive-formal limitként limitekként
essive-modal — —
inessive limitben limitekben
superessive limiten limiteken
adessive limitnél limiteknél
illative limitbe limitekbe
sublative limitre limitekre
allative limithez limitekhez
elative limitből limitekből
delative limitről limitekről
ablative limittől limitektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		limité limiteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		limitéi limitekéi
Possessive forms of limit
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. limitem limitjeim
2nd person sing. limited limitjeid
3rd person sing. limitje limitjei
1st person plural limitünk limitjeink
2nd person plural limitetek limitjeitek
3rd person plural limitjük limitjeik

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Indonesian

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Etymology

Internationalism, from Dutch limiet, from Middle Dutch limiten, from Old French limite, from Latin līmes.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

limit (plural limit-limit, first-person possessive limitku, second-person possessive limitmu, third-person possessive limitnya)

  1. limit:
    1. the final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
      Synonym: batas
    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).
      Synonym: had (Standard Malay)

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Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French limite, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes.

Pronunciation

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Noun

limit m inan

  1. limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go)

Declension

Declension of limit
singular plural
nominative limit limity
genitive limitu limitów
dative limitowi limitom
accusative limit limity
instrumental limitem limitami
locative limicie limitach
vocative limicie limity

Derived terms

adjective
verb

Further reading

  • limit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • limit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Limit.

Noun

lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling лѝмит)

  1. boundary
  2. boundary that cannot be surpassed

Declension

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: li‧mit
  • IPA(key): /ˈlimit/, [ˈliː.mɪt̪̚]

Noun

limit

  1. frequency
    Synonyms: dalas, kadalasan, kalimitan, pagkamalimit
  2. closeness; compactness; density
    Synonyms: sinsin, kasinsinan

Derived terms

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