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limit [ lim·it ]
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1. A point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass.
there was no limit to his imagination
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2. (often limits) The terminal point or boundary of an area or movement.
We must identify a plot of land outside the city limits.
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3. The furthest extent of one's physical or mental endurance.
Mary Ann tried everyone's patience to the limit
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4. A restriction on the size or amount of something permissible or possible.
an age limit
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5. A speed limit.
a 30 mph limit
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6. (also legal limit) The maximum concentration of alcohol in the blood that the law allows in the driver of a motor vehicle.
Tests showed that he had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.
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7. A point or value which a sequence, function, or sum of a series can be made to approach progressively, until they are as close to it as desired.
In fact, the sequence converges to a limit whose value is 2.7182818.
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Verb (limits, limiting, limited)
1. Set or serve as a limit to.
class sizes are limited to a maximum of 10
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Origin
1. Late Middle English from Latin limes, limit- ‘boundary, frontier’. The verb is from Latin limitare, from limes.
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