limit
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
limit (plural limits)
- 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.
- (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.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- (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
- (poker) Fixed limit.
- 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."
- (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
- (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- the dateless limit of thy dear exile
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- The limit of your lives is out.
- (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction, threshold
Derived terms
- age limit
- Armstrong limit
- Atterberg limit
- Betz limit
- blowdown limit
- Bremermann's limit
- cash limit
- central limit theorem
- Chandrasekhar limit
- Chu-Harrington limit
- city limit(s)
- credit limit
- Deutsch limit
- diffraction limit
- direct limit
- dizzy limit
- Eddington limit
- elastic limit
- Gabrielli-von Kármán limit
- Gabrielli-von Karman limit
- giddy limit
- Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
- GZK limit
- Hayashi limit
- Hayflick limit
- in the limit
- Kármán limit
- Karman limit
- Landauer limit
- limitation
- limit bid
- limit break
- limit cardinal
- limit case
- limit comparison test
- limit cycle
- limit down
- limit inferior
- limitless
- limit of positive stability
- limit order
- limit ordinal
- limit point
- limit situation
- limit superior
- limit up
- lower limit
- McDowell limit
- McQ limit
- McQuary limit
- no limit
- outer limit
- pot limit
- push the limit
- quantum limit
- rate limit
- Roche limit
- Shannon limit
- Shockley-Queisser limit
- sky's-the-limit
- Sparrow's resolution limit
- speed limit
- spread limit
- term-limit
- term limit
- the sky is the limit
- the sky's the limit
- ticket time limit
- time-limit
- time limit
- to the limit
- unlimited
- upper limit
- von Kármán limit
- von Karman limit
Descendants
- German: Limit
Translations
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Adjective
limit (not comparable)
- (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
See also
Etymology 2
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
Verb
limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)
- (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.
- 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.
- (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
- The sequence limits on the point a.
- (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
- a limiting friar
Synonyms
- (restrict): See Thesaurus:hinder
Antonyms
- (restrict): expand
Derived terms
Translations
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Further reading
- “limit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “limit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “limit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
limit m inan
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- “limit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “limit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
limit (plural limitek)
- limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
- ^ 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
Etymology
Internationalism, from Dutch limiet, from Middle Dutch limiten, from Old French limite, from Latin līmes.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
limit (plural limit-limit, first-person possessive limitku, second-person possessive limitmu, third-person possessive limitnya)
- limit:
- the final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- (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)
References
Further reading
- “limit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French limite, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes.
Pronunciation
Noun
limit m inan
- limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- limit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- limit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Noun
lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling лѝмит)
Declension
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈlimit/ [ˈliː.mɪt̪̚]
- Rhymes: -imit
- Syllabification: li‧mit
Noun
limit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)
- frequency
- Synonyms: dalas, kadalasan, kalimitan, pagkamalimit
- closeness; compactness; density
- Synonyms: sinsin, kasinsinan
Derived terms
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪmɪt
- Rhymes:English/ɪmɪt/2 syllables
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Mathematics
- en:Category theory
- en:Poker
- English terms with obsolete senses
- en:Logic
- en:Metaphysics
- en:Cycling
- English colloquialisms
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- en:Calculus
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech terms with audio links
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- Hungarian terms derived from English
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/it
- Rhymes:Hungarian/it/2 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian nouns
- Indonesian internationalisms
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Old French
- Indonesian terms derived from Latin
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/mɪt
- Rhymes:Indonesian/mɪt/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ɪt
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ɪt/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/t
- Rhymes:Indonesian/t/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Mathematics
- Polish terms borrowed from French
- Polish terms derived from French
- Polish terms derived from Old French
- Polish terms derived from Latin
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/imit
- Rhymes:Polish/imit/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from German
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from German
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/imit
- Rhymes:Tagalog/imit/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script