limit
/ˈlɪm.ɪt/ noun B1- 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.
- 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.
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. · Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. · the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
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“Alas, my boy,” said he, “human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself.
But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
Have we reached the limits of what reason can supply?”
But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire.
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