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limit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | limit point, point of accumulation |
| Type of | indefinite quantity |
limit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bound, boundary |
| Type of | extent |
| Has types | brink, knife-edge, level best, maximum, heat barrier, starkness, thermal barrier, utmost, uttermost, utterness, verge, absoluteness |
to the limit of his ability.
limit::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| Has types | tighten up, clamp down, constrain, crack down, cramp, cumber, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, draw a line, draw the line, encumber, gate, halter, hamper, mark off, mark out, reduce, restrain, scant, skimp, stiffen, strangle, tie, tighten |
| Derivation | limitation, limiter |
limit the time you can spend with your friends.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | demarcation, demarcation line |
| Type of | bounds, bound, boundary |
| Has types | edge, upper limit, three-mile limit, city limits, city limit, lower limit |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | terminal point, terminus ad quem |
| Type of | end, ending |
limit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | limitation |
| Type of | indefinite quantity |
| Has types | extremum, cutoff, peak |
there are limits on the amount you can bet.
it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight.
Examples of limit
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By my calculations that equates to a 60 mph speed limit, or one mile per minute.
From the stltoday.com
It would also limit the companies'investments in private equity and hedge funds.
From the businessweek.com
Those services, valued at more than $20,000, blew past the mini-reporting limit.
From the thenewstribune.com
Which side of the limit it sits on will be decided shortly by the Supreme Court.
From the washingtontimes.com
There isn't an age limit, but participants must weigh between 70 and 250 pounds.
From the dailyherald.com
In the spring of 1973, the other countries of the world had reached their limit.
From the forbes.com
Korea Express surged by 15 percent, the daily permissible limit, to 106,500 won.
From the bloomberg.com
The book also has recipes for those who must limit sugar intake or avoid gluten.
From the kentucky.com
Pregnant women have long been told to limit the amount of caffeine they consume.
From the voanews.com
- Restrict: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- The greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
- Restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- Terminus ad quem: final or latest limiting point
- As far as something can go
- Specify: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the abstract notion of a limit captures the essential properties of universal constructions such as products and inverse limits. ...
- In music theory, limit or harmonic limit is a way of characterizing the harmony found in a piece or genre of music, or the harmonies that can be made using a particular scale. ...
- In mathematics, especially in the study of dynamical systems, a limit set is the state a dynamical system reaches after an infinite amount of time has passed, by either going forward or backwards in time. ...
