Definition of "limit" in Anglais

noun

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

   • 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.

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 which 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, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

13. (music) Ellipsis of harmonic limit.

adjective

1. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.

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.

2. (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