limit

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪmɪt/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪmɪt/, /ˈlɪmt/
• Rhymes: -ɪmɪt

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

limit (plural limits)

1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
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2. (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).

3. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.

4. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.

   Synonyms: inverse limit, projective limit

   Hyponyms: terminal object, categorical product, pullback, equalizer, identity morphism

5. (poker) Fixed limit.
6. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
7. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
8. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
9. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
10. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
11. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
12. (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

Synonyms

• (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction, threshold, rim

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Limit

Translations

Adjective

limit (not comparable)

1. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.

See also

• bound
• function

Etymology 2

From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.

Verb

limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)

1. (transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

   Synonyms: check, straiten; see also Thesaurus:hinder, Thesaurus:curb

   Antonyms: expand, release
2. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.

3. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “limit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “limit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “limit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• milit.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪmɪt]

Noun

limit m inan

1. limit

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• “limit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “limit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

Etymology

From English limit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlimit]
• Hyphenation: li‧mit
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

limit (plural limitek)

1. limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)

Declension

References

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, from Dutch limiet, from Middle Dutch limiten, from Old French limite, from Latin līmes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimɪt̚/
• Rhymes: -mɪt, -ɪt, -t
• Hyphenation: li‧mit

Noun

limit (plural limit-limit)

1. limit:
   1. the final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

      Synonyms: batas, had

   2. (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).

      Synonym: had (Standard Malay)

References

Further reading

• “limit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French limite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.mit/
• Rhymes: -imit
• Syllabification: li‧mit

Noun

limit m inan (related adjective limitowy)

1. limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• limit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• limit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Limit.

Noun

lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling лѝмит)

1. boundary
2. boundary that cannot be surpassed

Declension

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlimit/ [ˈliː.mɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -imit
• Syllabification: li‧mit

Noun

limit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)

1. frequency

   Synonyms: dalas, kadalasan, kalimitan, pagkamalimit

2. closeness; compactness; density

   Synonyms: sinsin, kasinsinan

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with English limit.

Derived terms