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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Limit \Lim"it\, v. i. To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as a limiting friar. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Limited}; p. pr & vb n. {Limiting}.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr limes, limitis limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf L. limus sidelong.] To apply a limit to or set a limit for to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word {Limiting parallels} (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), n. [From L. limes, limitis: cf F. limite; or from E. limit, v. See {Limit}, v. t.] 1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor. As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. --Pope. 2. The space or thing defined by limits. The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally. --Shak. 3. That which terminates a period of time; hence the period itself the full time or extent. The dateless limit of thy dear exile. --Shak. The limit of your lives is out --Shak. 4. A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance. I prithee, give no limits to my tongue. --Shak. 5. (Logic & Metaph.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia. 6. (Math.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent. {Elastic limit}. See under {Elastic}. {Prison limits}, a definite extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come Syn: Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound; confine. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: limit n 1: the greatest possible degree of something: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability" [syn: {bounds}, {boundary}] 2: final or latest limiting point [syn: {terminus ad quem}, {terminal point}] 3: as far as something can go 4: the boundary of a specific area [syn: {demarcation}, {demarcation line}] 5: the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed; "there are limits on the amount you can bet"; "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight" [syn: {limitation}] 6: a mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity [syn: {limit point}, {point of accumulation}] v 1: place limits on "restrict the use of this parking lot" [syn: {restrict}, {restrain}, {trammel}, {bound}, {confine}, {throttle}] 2: place under restrictions; limit access to [syn: {restrict}] [ant: {derestrict}] 3: restrict or confine, as to area, extent, time, etc [syn: {circumscribe}, {confine}]
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