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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “limit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “limit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• milit.

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian лими́т (limít), itself from French limite.

Noun

limit (definite accusative limiti, plural limitlər)

1. limit
   1. (mathematics) limit

Derived terms

• görkəmli limit (“wonderful limit”)

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

Sundanese

Etymology 1

Compare Javanese ꦭꦶꦩꦶꦠ꧀ (limit, “(of a road) flat and smooth”)

Adjective

limit (Sundanese script ᮜᮤᮙᮤᮒ᮪)

1. smooth, neat

Etymology 2

From Indonesian limit.

Noun

limit (Sundanese script ᮜᮤᮙᮤᮒ᮪)

1. limit
   1. border

      Synonym: wates

   2. (mathematics) a value to which a sequence converges

Further reading

• "LIMIT", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij
• Dudu Prawiraatmaja, Achlan Husen, Sukandi, Ice Sutara Kama Yudibrata (1986) Perkembangan Bahasa Sunda Sesudah Perang Dunia II [Post-WWII Development of the Sundanese Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

Tagalog

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Compare Kapampangan limit.

Noun

limit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)

1. frequency

   Synonyms: dalas, kadalasan, kalimitan, pagkamalimit

2. closeness; compactness; density

   Synonyms: sinsin, kasinsinan

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English limit, from Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes. Doublet of limite.

Noun

limit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)

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

   Synonyms: hanggahan, kasukdulan, sukdulan, dulo, lindero

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

   Synonyms: hanggahan, takda, limitasyon, lindero, saklaw, sakop, hantungan

Related terms

Further reading

• “limit”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “limit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 640
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
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