Definition of limit

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Limit (v. t.) 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..

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Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..
Lover :: Lover (n.) One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex..
Locality :: Locality (n.) Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial..
Adjective :: Adjective (n.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, a wise ruler, wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler..
Locale :: Locale (n.) A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality..
Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district..
Vibration :: Vibration (n.) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever..
Illimitation :: Illimitation (n.) State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation..
Major-domo :: Major-domo (n.) A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer..
Extraterritoriality :: Extraterritoriality (n.) The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territor.
Tether :: Tether (v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits..
Interminable :: Interminable (a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings..
Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council..
Limitable :: Limitable (a.) Capable of being limited.
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules..
Interminably :: Interminably (adv.) Without end or limit.
Plimsoll''s Mark :: Plimsoll's mark () A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured..
Quantum :: Quantum (n.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary..
Protrusion :: Protrusion (n.) The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit..
Exorbitant :: Exorbitant (a.) Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims..
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