| limit | |
| 1. n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. | |
| There are several existing limits to executive power. | |
| Two drinks is my limit tonight. | |
| 2. n. (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 | |
| The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit. | |
| 3. n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. | |
| Category theory defines a very general concept of limit. | |
| 4. n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely. | |
| 5. n. (poker) Short for fixed limit. | |
| 6. n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. | |
| the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance. | |
| 10. n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. | |
| 11. n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race. | |
| 12. adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game. | |
| 13. v. To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. | |
| We need to limit the power of the executive. | |
| I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight. | |
| 14. v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set. | |
| The sequence limits on the point a. | |
| 15. v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region. | |
| a limiting friar | |
