limit
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
NounEdit
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 1057107260:
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[episode 17]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
- 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. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:
- 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 606515358, [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 606515358, [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 606515358, [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 606515358, [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.
SynonymsEdit
- (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction, threshold
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- German: Limit
TranslationsEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
limit (not comparable)
- (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
VerbEdit
limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)
- (transitive) 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.
- 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.
- (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
SynonymsEdit
- (restrict): See Thesaurus:hinder
TranslationsEdit
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Further readingEdit
- limit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- limit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- limit at OneLook Dictionary Search
AnagramsEdit
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
limit m
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- limit in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- limit in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
limit (plural limitek)
- limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)
DeclensionEdit
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 |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Internationalism, from Dutch limiet, from Middle Dutch limiten, from Old French limite, from Latin līmes.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- Synonym: batas
- (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)
- the final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- “limit” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French limite, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
limit m inan
- limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- limit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- limit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling лѝмит)
DeclensionEdit
TagalogEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
limit
- frequency
- Synonyms: dalas, kadalasan, kalimitan, pagkamalimit
- closeness; compactness; density
- Synonyms: sinsin, kasinsinan