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Webster 1913 Edition
Limit
Lim′it
(lĭm′ĭt)
, Noun.
1.
That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent;
as, the
limit
of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits
of human knowledge or endeavor.As eager of the chase, the maid
Beyond the forest’s verdant
Beyond the forest’s verdant
limits
strayed. Pope.
2.
The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided it
Into three
Into three
limits
very equally. Shakespeare
3.
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
The dateless
limit
of thy dear exile. Shakespeare
The
limit
of your lives is out. Shakespeare
4.
A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
I prithee, give no
limits
to my tongue. Shakespeare
5.
(Logic & Metaph.)
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
6.
(Math.)
A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
Syn. – Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound; confine.
Lim′it
(lĭm′ĭt)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Limited
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Limiting
.] [F.
limiter
, L. limitare
, fr. limes
, limitis
, limit; prob. akin to limen
threshold, E. eliminate
; cf. L. limus
sidelong.] To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits;
as, to
limit
the acreage of a crop; to limit
the issue of paper money; to limit
one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit
the meaning of a word.Limiting parallels
(Astron.)
, those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.
Lim′it
,Verb.
I.
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region;
as, a
. limiting
friar[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Limit
LIM'IT
,Noun.
1.
Bound; border; utmost extent; the part that terminates a thing; as the limit of a town, city or empire; the limits of human knowledge.2.
The thing which bounds; restraint.3.
Limits, plu., the extent of the liberties of a prison.LIM'IT
, v.t.1.
To bound; to set bounds to.2.
To confine within certain bounds; to circumscribe; to restrain. The government of England is a limited monarchy.They tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel. Ps.78.
3.
To restrain from a lax or general signification. World sometimes signifies the universe, and sometimes its signification is limited to this earth.Definition 2024
Limit
limit
limit
English
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.
- (poker) Short for fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- Alexander Pope
- As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
- (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
- Shakespeare
- The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- Shakespeare
- the dateless limit of thy dear exile
- Shakespeare
- The limit of your lives is out.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- Shakespeare
- I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
- Shakespeare
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
Synonyms
- (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction
Derived terms
Terms derived from limit
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Descendants
- German: Limit
Translations
boundary
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mathematics: value to which a sequence converges
mathematics: abstraction of this concept of limit
See also
Adjective
limit (not comparable)
- (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
Etymology 2
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin limitare (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from limes; 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.
- 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): cap; restrict; withstrain
Translations
restrict
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Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlimit]
- Hyphenation: li‧mit
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 |
| 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. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2