limit
English
Pronunciation
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”).
Noun
limit (plural limits)
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chapter 21:
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:
- Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […]
- 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
- At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
- (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.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- (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
- (poker) Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
- (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
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- The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
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- (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
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- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: Limit
Translations
boundary
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mathematics: value to which a sequence converges
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mathematics: abstraction of this concept of limit
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Adjective
limit (not comparable)
- (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
See also
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English limiten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French limiter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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)
- (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.
- (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
- The sequence limits on the point a.
- (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
- a limiting friar
Synonyms
- (restrict): See Thesaurus:hinder
Translations
restrict
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Further reading
- “limit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “limit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “limit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
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Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
limit (plural limitek)
- 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
- ^ 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
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Limit.
Noun
lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling лѝмит)
Declension
Declension of limit
Tagalog
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limit
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