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▸ 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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demarcation,
terminus ad quem,
limitation,
restrict,
confine,
circumscribe,
boundary,
restrain,
demarcation line,
limit point,
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