limit
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Is limit a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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).Examples: "The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit."
2. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.Examples: "Category theory defines a very general concept of limit."
3. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.Synonyms: inverse limit, projective limit
4. (poker) Fixed limit.
5. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.Examples: "The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally."obsolete
6. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.Examples: "the dateless limit of thy dear exile"; "The limit of your lives is out."obsolete
adj (English)
1. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.not-comparable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.Examples: "We need to limit the power of the executive."; "I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight."; "[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."Synonyms: check, straiten, behedge, blunt, delay, difficult, diminish, forestayAntonyms: expand, releasetransitive
2. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.Examples: "The sequence limits on the point a."intransitive
3. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.Examples: "a limiting friar"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary