limit
Plural: limits
Noun
- the greatest possible degree of something
- "to the limit of his ability"
- final or latest limiting point
- as far as something can go
- the boundary of a specific area
- the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
- the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
- "there are limits on the amount you can bet"
- "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight"
- 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.
- The space or thing defined by limits.
- That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- 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.
- A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Verb
Verb Forms: limited, limiting, limits
- To restrict, confine, or set a boundary.
- place limits on (extent or access)
- "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- restrict or confine,
- "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- decide upon or fix definitely
- To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- To have a limit in a particular set.
- To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
Adj
- Being a fixed limit game.
Examples
- a limiting friar
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- The sequence limits on the point a.
- The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- We need to limit the power of the executive.
- Wise players know when to LIMIT their risk, even for high-scoring words.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
bound, boundary, circumscribe, confine, define, demarcation, demarcation line, determine, fix, limit point, limitation, point of accumulation, restrain, restrict, set, specify, terminal point, terminus ad quem, throttle, trammel, behedge, bind, blunt, bury, chasten, check, contain, cork, curb, curtail, dampen, delay, difficult, diminish, forestay, forslow, frustrate, get in the way, guard, hamper, hamshackle, handicap, hinder, hold back, hold down, hold up, hurt, impair, impede, incommode, interfere, intervene, inverse limit, lessen, let, limit, mar, obstruct, overslaugh, preclude, prevene, prevent, prohibit, projective limit, reduce, repress, restriction, retard, rim, shackle, slow down, stay, stifle, stop, straiten, subdue, suppress, threshold, thwart, thwarten, umbeset, underbring, undermine, vanquish, weaken, withhold, withstrain, worsen
Scrabble Score: 7
limit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlimit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
limit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary