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limit

See also: Limit and límit

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪmɪt/
  • (India) IPA(key): /ˈlɪmɪt/, /ˈlɪmt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪmɪt

Etymology 1

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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.

 
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Noun

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limit (plural limits)

  1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
    There are several existing limits to executive power.
    Two drinks is my limit tonight.
    • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
      It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […]
    • 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
      At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
  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).
    The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
  3. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
    Category theory defines a very general 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.
    the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
    • 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
      As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
    • 2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 59:
      "Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."
  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.
    • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 63:
      Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared.
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Descendants
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  • German: Limit
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Adjective

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limit (not comparable)

  1. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.

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Etymology 2

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

Verb

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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
    We need to limit the power of the executive.
    I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
    • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
      [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
    • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
      Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.
  2. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
    The sequence limits on the point a.
  3. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
    a limiting friar
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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limit m inan

  1. limit

Declension

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Declension of limit (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative limit limity
genitive limitu limitů
dative limitu limitům
accusative limit limity
vocative limite limity
locative limitu limitech
instrumental limitem limity
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Further reading

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

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From English limit.[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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limit (plural limitek)

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

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative limit limitek
accusative limitet limiteket
dative limitnek limiteknek
instrumental limittel limitekkel
causal-final limitért limitekért
translative limitté limitekké
terminative limitig limitekig
essive-formal limitként limitekként
essive-modal — —
inessive limitben limitekben
superessive limiten limiteken
adessive limitnél limiteknél
illative limitbe limitekbe
sublative limitre limitekre
allative limithez limitekhez
elative limitből limitekből
delative limitről limitekről
ablative limittől limitektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		limité limiteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		limitéi limitekéi
Possessive forms of limit
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. limitem limitjeim
2nd person sing. limited limitjeid
3rd person sing. limitje limitjei
1st person plural limitünk limitjeink
2nd person plural limitetek limitjeitek
3rd person plural limitjük limitjeik

References

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Internationalism, from Dutch limiet, from Middle Dutch limiten, from Old French limite, from Latin līmes.[1]

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Noun

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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)

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  1. ^ Nicoline van der Sijs (2010) Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd‎[1], Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, →OCLC

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Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French limite.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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limit m inan (related adjective limitowy)

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

Declension

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Declension of limit
singular plural
nominative limit limity
genitive limitu limitów
dative limitowi limitom
accusative limit limity
instrumental limitem limitami
locative limicie limitach
vocative limicie limity

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Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Limit.

Noun

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lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling лѝмит)

  1. boundary
  2. boundary that cannot be surpassed

Declension

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Declension of limit
singular plural
nominative limit limiti
genitive limita limita
dative limitu limitima
accusative limit limite
vocative limite limiti
locative limitu limitima
instrumental limitom limitima

Tagalog

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limit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)

  1. frequency
    Synonyms: dalas, kadalasan, kalimitan, pagkamalimit
  2. closeness; compactness; density
    Synonyms: sinsin, kasinsinan

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