Dictionary
limit
Meaning
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- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- 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).
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
- (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.
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (colloquial) A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɪmɪt/
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