limit

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
2. 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).
3. Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
4. The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
5. Fixed limit.
6. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
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. A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
11. The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
12. (colloquial) A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of harmonic limit.

Adj

Being a fixed limit game.

Verb

1. (transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
2. (intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
3. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

Concepts

limite

limiter

frontière

restreindre

fin

🔚

bord

bout

🔚

mesure

borner

restriction

maîtriser

maximum

circonscrire

retenir

prescrire

borne

réprimer

limitation

spécifier

délimitation

régner

résultat

rive

🏦

seuil

seulement

surveiller

taille

zone

abornement

au mieux

bornes

démarcation

extrême limite

limites

terminus

valeur limite

point d’accumulation

l’extrémité

bordons

bordent

bordez

circonscrir

raccoucir

point limite

valeur d’adhérence

ampleur

limiter dans le temps

attacher

autant que possible

bordure

Opposé de

expand, release

Synonymes

boundary

border

restrict

end

🔚

confine

bound

frontier

edge

extent

bounds

restrain

measure

circumscribe

scope

limitation

abridge

restriction

degree

range

line

extremity

perimeter

delimit

define

demarcation

margin

stint

reduce

fix

barrier

terminal point

parameter

quota

terminus

determine

constrict

shore

demarcate

localize

curtail

limit point

check

height

localise

cramp

regulate

domain

amount

bourne

peak

Traductions

Grenze

límite

limite

limite

grens

frontiera

fronteira

limitare

Begrenzung

beperken

límit

σύνορο

frontera

limitar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈlɪmɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: limit

Hérité de moyen anglais: limiten

In summary

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”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.

Phrases

The reserve requirement therefore acts as a limit on this multiplier effect .

L'exigence de réserve agit donc comme une limite à cet effet multiplicateur.