Usually means: Boundaries defining extent or capacity.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. limits: Merriam-Webster
  2. limits: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. limits: Collins English Dictionary
  4. limits: Vocabulary.com
  5. Limits, limit's, limits: Wordnik
  6. limits: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. limits: Wiktionary
  8. limits: Dictionary.com
  9. limits: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Limits (BDSM), Limits (Paenda song), Limits: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. LIMITS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  12. limits: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. limits: Legal dictionary
  2. limits: Financial dictionary

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  1. limits: Encyclopedia

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  1. limits: Medical dictionary

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  1. LIMITS: Acronym Finder
  2. limits: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (limit)

noun:  A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
noun:  (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).
noun:  (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
noun:  (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
noun:  (poker) Fixed limit.
noun:  The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
noun:  (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
noun:  (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
noun:  (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
noun:  (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
noun:  (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
noun:  (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
adjective:  (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
verb:  (transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
verb:  (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
verb:  (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
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