Usually means: Boundary approached but not reached.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. limit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. limit, the limit: Merriam-Webster
  3. limit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. limit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. limit, the limit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. limit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Limit, limit: Wordnik
  8. limit, the limit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. limit: Wiktionary
  10. limit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. limit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. limit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. limit, the limit: Dictionary.com
  14. limit (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. limit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Limit (category theory), Limit (manga), Limit (mathematics), Limit (music), Limit (roller coaster), Limit, The Limit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Limit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. limit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. limit: Rhymezone
  20. limit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. limit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. limit: FreeDictionary.org
  23. limit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. limit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. limit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. limit(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limit: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. limit: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Limit: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Limit: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  6. limit: Legal dictionary
  7. Limit: Financial dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. limit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LIMIT: Acronym Finder
  3. limit: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Limit: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. -limit, -limit, limit, limit, limit, limit: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. limit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. limit: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Limit (Limit Poker): Dan's Poker
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  4. Limit: Sports Definitions

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(Note: See limitable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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