• IPA^(key):/ˈlɪmɪt/
• (India)IPA^(key):/ˈlɪmɪt/,/ˈlɪmt/

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• Rhymes:-ɪmɪt

FromMiddle Englishlimit, fromOld Frenchlimit, fromLatinlīmes(“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced nativeOld Englishġemǣre.Doublet oflimes.

limit (plurallimits)

1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

   There are several existinglimits to executive power.

   Two drinks is mylimit tonight.

   • 1838 March –1839 October,Charles Dickens, chapter 21, inThe Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London:Chapman and Hall, […], published1839,→OCLC:

     It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond itslimit[…]

   • 1922 February,James Joyce, “[Episode 17]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company, […],→OCLC:

     Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extremelimit 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 nolimit 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 asequenceconverges. Equivalently, the common value of theupper limit and thelower 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 itslimit.

3. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.

   Category theory defines a very general concept oflimit.

4. (category theory) Thecone of adiagramthrough which any other cone of that same diagram canfactor uniquely.

   Synonyms:inverse limit,projective limit

   Hyponyms:terminal object,categorical product,pullback,equalizer,identity morphism

5. (poker)Fixed limit.
6. Thefinal,utmost, orfurthestpoint; the border or edge.

   thelimit 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 verdantlimits strayed.

   • 2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, inRAIL, number939, page59:

     "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 thelimit."

7. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
   • c.1597 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene i]:

     The archdeacon hath divided it / Into threelimits very equally.

8. (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”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene iii]:

     the datelesslimit of thy dear exile

   • c.1593 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii]:

     Thelimit of your lives is out.

9. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
   • c.1591–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene ii]:

     I prithee, give nolimits to my tongue.

10. (logic,metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
11. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in ahandicap race.
12. (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who isexasperating,intolerable,astounding, etc.
    • 1932,Delos W. Lovelace,King Kong, published1965, page63:

      Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’rethe limit,’ he declared.

• (restriction):bound,boundary,limitation,restriction,threshold,rim

• German:Limit

limit (notcomparable)

1. (poker) Being afixed limit game.

• bound
• function

FromMiddle Englishlimiten, fromOld Frenchlimiter, fromLatinlīmitō(“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), fromlīmes; see noun.

limit (third-person singular simple presentlimits,present participlelimiting,simple past and past participlelimited)

1. (transitive) Torestrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certainbound, to setboundaries.

   Synonyms:check,straiten;see alsoThesaurus:hinder,Thesaurus:curb

   Antonyms:expand,release

   We need tolimit the power of the executive.

   I'mlimiting myself to two drinks tonight.

   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8848:

     [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning tolimit 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...”, inRAIL, number978, page48:

     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 sequencelimits on the pointa.

3. (obsolete) Tobeg, or toexercisefunctions, within a certain limited region.

   alimiting friar

• “limit”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “limit”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
• “limit”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

• milit.

Borrowed fromRussianлими́т(limít), itself fromFrenchlimite.

limit (definite accusativelimiti,plurallimitlər)

1. limit
   1. (mathematics)limit

• görkəmli limit(“wonderful limit”)

• IPA^(key):[ˈlɪmɪt]

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limit m inan

1. limit

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

FromEnglishlimit.^[1]

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

limit (plurallimitek)

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

Internationalism, fromDutchlimiet, fromMiddle Dutchlimiten, fromOld Frenchlimite, fromLatinlīmes.^[1]

• IPA^(key):/ˈlimɪt̚/
• Rhymes:-mɪt,-ɪt,-t
• Hyphenation:li‧mit

limit (plurallimit-limit)

1. limit:
   1. the final, utmost, or furthest point; theborder oredge

      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)

• “limit” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed fromFrenchlimite.

• IPA^(key):/ˈli.mit/

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• Rhymes:-imit
• Syllabification:li‧mit

limit m inan (related adjectivelimitowy)

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

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

Borrowed fromGermanLimit.

lìmit m (Cyrillic spellingлѝмит)

1. boundary
2. boundary that cannot be surpassed

CompareJavaneseꦭꦶꦩꦶꦠ꧀(limit,“(of a road) flat and smooth”)

limit (Sundanese scriptᮜᮤᮙᮤᮒ᮪)

1. smooth,neat

FromIndonesianlimit.

limit (Sundanese scriptᮜᮤᮙᮤᮒ᮪)

1. limit
   1. border

      Synonym:wates

   2. (mathematics) avalue to which asequenceconverges

• "LIMIT", inCoolsma, S (1913)Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden:A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij
• Dudu Prawiraatmaja, Achlan Husen, Sukandi, Ice Sutara Kama Yudibrata (1986)Perkembangan Bahasa Sunda Sesudah Perang Dunia II [Post-WWII Development of the Sundanese Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈlimit/[ˈliː.mɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes:-imit
• Syllabification:li‧mit

CompareKapampanganlimit.

limit (Baybayin spellingᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)

1. frequency

   Synonyms:dalas,kadalasan,kalimitan,pagkamalimit

2. closeness;compactness;density

   Synonyms:sinsin,kasinsinan

Borrowed fromEnglishlimit, fromMiddle Englishlimit, fromOld Frenchlimit, fromLatinlīmes.Doublet oflimite.

limit (Baybayin spellingᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)

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

   Synonyms:hanggahan,kasukdulan,sukdulan,dulo,lindero

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

   Synonyms:hanggahan,takda,limitasyon,lindero,saklaw,sakop,hantungan

• “limit”, inKWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino,Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino,2024
• “limit”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973)Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page640
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor,Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
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