limit
Forms
- Plural
- limits
- present (v1)
- limit
- past (v2)
- limited
- past participle (v3)
- limited
- present participle
- limiting
- 3rd person singular
- limits
Definitions
1.A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- 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.
2.The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
3.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.
4.Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
1.To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
- We need to limit the power of the executive.
2.To have a limit in a particular set.
- The sequence limits on the point a.
1.Being a fixed limit game.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1451
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“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.