limit
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noun- 1.
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: inverse limit, projective limit
- 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
- 7.
(obsolete)The space or thing defined by limits.
- 8.
(obsolete)That 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)(colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To restrict; to circumscribe; 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.
Đồng nghĩa: check, straiten, behedge, blunt, crimp, delay, difficult, diminish, forestay, interfere, intervene, forslow, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, hurt, impair, impede, incommode, lessen, let, mar, obstruct, overslaugh, preclude, prevene, prevent, prohibit, reduce, restrict, retard, slow down, stay, stymie, thwart, thwarten, umbeset, undermine, weaken, worsen, behedge, guard, govern, smother, bind, chasten, check, inhibit, contain, vanquish, cork, curb, bury, curtail, dampen, hamshackle, hold back, hold down, limit, repress, restrain, restrict, shackle, stay, stifle, stop, straiten, subdue, suppress, throttle, underbring, withhold, withstrain
- 2.
(intransitive)(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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From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes. Displaced native ġemǣre. limes.