limit
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceedA restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
» There is a limit to everything.
Alles hat seine Grenzen.
Всему есть предел.
Всьому є край.
Meaning
12 sensesA restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
Grenze, Begrenzer
преде́лpredél, лими́тlimít, грани́цаgraníca
межа́mežá, лімі́тlimít
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).
The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
Grenzwert, Grenze
преде́лpredél
Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
Limes, Grenzwert
The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
final or latest limiting point
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
(colloquial)A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
(obsolete)The space or thing defined by limits.
(obsolete)That terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
(obsolete)A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
Examples
721 sentencesThere is a limit to everything.
Всьому є край.
ruВсему есть предел.
deAlles hat seine Grenzen.
Don't go above the speed limit.
Не перевищуй швидкість.
ruНе превышай скорость.
deNicht die Höchstgeschwindigkeit überschreiten!
Don't go over the speed limit.
Не перевищуй швидкість.
ruНе превышайте скорость.
deNicht die Höchstgeschwindigkeit überschreiten!
I'll help you within the limits of my ability.
Я вам допоможу в міру своїх можливостей.
ruЯ помогу вам по мере своих возможностей.
deIch werde Ihnen im Rahmen meiner Möglichkeiten helfen.
There are limits.
Є обмеження.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit-From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
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Forms
plural: limitsSynonyms
14 synonyms- the greatest possible degree of something:boundboundary
- the boundary of a specific area:demarcationdemarcation line
- the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed:limitation
- the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity:limit pointpoint of accumulation
- final or latest limiting point:terminus ad quemterminal point
Word family
52 related wordsCollocations
7 patterns- the speed limit
- speed limit
- speed limit is
- city limits
- is no limit
- no limit
- is a limit