Word Finder - limit

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A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

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There are several existing limits to executive power.

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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).

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The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.

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Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.

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Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.

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The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.

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• inverse limit
• projective limit

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Fixed limit.

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The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

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the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country

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The space or thing defined by limits.

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That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.

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A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.

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A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.

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The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.

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(as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

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Being a fixed limit game.

We have to limit the strain we place him under or he'll break.

He drove the speed limit - no more, no less.

There is a certain limit of time in less than which no amount of heat can melt the snow.

We agreed to limit our test to one phone call.

In 1812 it reaches its extreme limit, Moscow, and then, with remarkable symmetry, a countermovement occurs from east to west, attracting to it, as the first movement had done, the nations of middle Europe.

I broke the speed limit wasting no time getting there.

There was a limit to his patience, and she had crossed it.

It may have some limit in theory, because there is an optimal arrangement of atoms in the universe; but for practical purposes, it has no limit.

Before Nerazzini could reach Adis Ababa, Rudini, in order partially to satisfy the demands of his Radical supporters for the abandonment of the colony, announced in the Chamber the intention of Italy to limit her occupation to the triangular zone between the points Asmar, Keren and Massawa, and, possibly, to withdraw to Massawa alone.

Instead of science proceeding at the slow speed of time, the only limit on its progress will be processor speed—and those two speeds hardly can be compared.

Or maybe I can learn to fight and go with him, if there's no time limit to the war.

The big deal is the speed limit is fifty.

The last words were an attempt to limit further appeal to Rome.

Count Rostopchin paused, feeling that he had reached the limit beyond which censure was impossible.

Yes Carmen, let's limit it to his face.

The mind can act only upon itself; beyond that limit, the power of God must intervene to make any seeming interaction possible between body and soul.

On this occasion some supplementary articles were added to the charter; these were intended to limit the taxing power of the crown.

When there is a single protoxylem strand in the centre of the stele, or when, as is more commonly the case, there are several protoxylem strands situated at the internal limit of the xylem,, the centre of the stem being occupied by parenchyma, the stele is endarch.

Technology has no limit we know of.

Don't limit it just to plants.

The poplars are almost entirely confined to the north temperate zone, but a few approach or even pass its northern limit, and they are widely distributed within that area; they show, like the willows, a partiality for moist ground and often line the river-sides in otherwise treeless districts.

What characterizes a tadpole is the conjoined globular head and body, so formed that it is practically impossible to discern the limit between the two, sharply set off from the more or less elongate compressed tail which is the organ of propulsion.

Howie had nearly reached his limit when he heard someone enter the room!

The Magra (Macra), in ancient times the boundary between Liguria and Etruria, may be considered as constituting on this side the limit of Northern Italy.

Drastic measures were necessary to limit expenditure and to provide new sources of revenue.

Apical cell, p. Wall marking limit between the plerome k, initial segment of root-cap. P and the pleriblem Pb.

Outermost layer of root-cap. c. Wall marking the inner limit of the outer cortex.

In 119 as tribune he proposed a law intended to limit the influence of the nobles at elections.

People accustomed to think in that way forget, or do not know, the inevitable conditions which always limit the activities of any commander in chief.

Beyond a certain limit no mechanical disruption of the body could hasten the process of decomposition.

And what is the time limit for such reactions?

The grant finally came into the possession of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, and in 1746 a stone was erected at the source of the north branch of the Potomac to mark the western limit of the grant.

But in 1860 the annexation Nice and the adjoining territory to France brought the political frontier farther east, to a point between Mentone and Ventimiglia which constitutes no natural limit.

Towards the north-east, the point where the Julian Alps approach close to the seashore (just at the sources of the little stream known in ancient times as the Timavus) would seem to constitute the best natural limit.

The limit of each years increment of secondary wood, in those plants whose yearly activity is interrupted by a regular winter or dry season, is marked by a more or less distinct line, which is produced by the sharp contrast between the wood formed in the late summer of one year (characterized by the sparseness or small diameter of the tracheal elements, or by the preponderance of fibres, or by a combination of these characters, giving a denseness to the wood) and the loose spring wood of the next year, with its absence of fibres, or its numerous large tracheae.

In Gymnosperms, where vessels and fibres are absent, the late summer wood is composed of radially narrow thick-walled tracheids, the wood of the succeeding spring being wide-celled and thin-walled, so that the limit of the years growth is very well marked.

As this is not the incorporation of either into the living sobstance, but is only its manufacture into the complex substances which we find in the plant, it seems preferable to limit the term assimilation to the processes by which foods are actually taken into the protoplasm.

When the limit of extensibility is reached the cell wall increases in thickness from the continuation of the latter of the two processes.

Warming admits there is no sharp limit between nI

Temperature, then, is the fundamental limit which nature opposes to the indefinite extension of any one species.

Its eastern limit in Europe is a line from Konigsberg to the Caucasus; thence through China it is continued by varietal forms to Japan.

In 1300 the outer ring of walls was completed, the earlier circumvallation being marked by the limit of the Altstadt (old city).

The Bresse is watered by the Veyle and the Reyssouze, both flowing into the Saone, which washes the western limit of the department.

However we may interpret the lower limit of this period, the literature which it embraces is immense.

With the 13th century Hebrew literature may be said to have reached the limit of its development.

In the north, where the province borders Semipalatinsk, it includes the western parts of the Tarbagatai range, the summits of which (10,000 ft.) do not reach the limit of perpetual snow.

As far as the Khabur Mesopotamia seems to have been a wellinhabited country from at least the 15th century B.C., when it constituted the Hittite kingdom of Mitanni, down to about the 12th century A.D., and the same is true of the country on the Syrian side of the Euphrates as far as the eastern limit of the Palmyrene.

In the cattle classes, aged beasts of huge size and of considerably over a ton in weight used to be common, but in recent years the tendency has been to reduce the upper limit of age, and thus to bring out animals ripe for the butcher in a shorter time than was formerly the case.

The single exception is provided by the slowly-maturing Highland breed of cattle, for which classes were allotted to (I) steers not exceeding three years old, (2) steers or oxen above three years old (with no maximum limit), and (3) heifers not exceeding four years old.

The euthyneurous visceral loop is long, and presents only one ganglion (in Aplysia camelus, but two distinct ganglia joined to one another in Aplysia hybrida of the English coast), placed at its extreme limit, representing both the right and left visceral ganglia and the third or abdominal ganglion, which are so often separately present.