limit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɪ.mɪt/Category:English 2-syllable words#LIMITCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#LIMIT
- (Indic) IPA(key): /lɪˈmɪʈ/, /ˈlɪmʈ/Category:English 2-syllable words#LIMITCategory:English 1-syllable words#LIMITCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#LIMIT
- Rhymes: -ɪmɪtCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪmɪt#LIMITCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪmɪt/2 syllables#LIMIT
- Hyphenation: li‧mit
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#LIMITCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#LIMIT limit, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#LIMIT limit, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#LIMIT līmes (“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 limesCategory:English doublets#LIMIT.
Noun
limit (plural limits)Category:English lemmas#LIMITCategory:English nouns#LIMITCategory:English countable nouns#LIMITCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- There are several existing limits to executive power.Category:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.Category:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
- 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […]Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
- At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
- (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#LIMIT) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
- (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#LIMIT) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.Category:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
- (category theoryCategory:en:Category theory#LIMIT) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Synonyms: inverse limit, projective limit
- Hyponyms: terminal object, categorical product, pullback, equalizer, identity morphism
- (pokerCategory:en:Poker#LIMIT) Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a countryCategory:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
- 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
- As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- 2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 59:
- "Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#LIMIT) The space or thing defined by limits.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#LIMIT) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- the dateless limit of thy dear exileCategory:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- The limit of your lives is out.Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#LIMIT) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- (logicCategory:en:Logic#LIMIT, metaphysicsCategory:en:Metaphysics#LIMIT) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cyclingCategory:en:Cycling#LIMIT) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#LIMIT, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 63:
- Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared.Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
Synonyms
- (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction, threshold, rim
Derived terms
- age limit
- antilimit
- Armstrong limit
- Atterberg limit
- Betz limit
- blowdown limit
- Bremermann's limit
- cash limit
- central limit theorem
- Chandrasekhar limit
- Chu-Harrington limit
- city limit(s)
- colimit
- credit limit
- Deutsch limit
- diffraction limit
- direct limit
- dizzy limit
- Eddington limit
- elastic limit
- Gabrielli-von Karman limit
- Gabrielli-von Kármán limit
- giddy limit
- Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
- GZK limit
- Hayashi limit
- Hayflick limit
- in the limit
- Karman limit
- Kármán limit
- Landauer limit
- limital
- limitarian
- limitation
- limit bid
- limit break
- limit cardinal
- limit case
- limit comparison test
- limit cycle
- limit down
- limit inferior
- limitive
- limitless
- limit of positive stability
- limit order
- limit ordinal
- limit point
- limit situation
- limit superior
- limit switch
- limit up
- lintel
- lower limit
- McDowell limit
- McQ limit
- McQuary limit
- no limit
- outer limit
- overlimit
- pot limit
- push the limit
- quantum limit
- rate limit
- Roche limit
- Shannon limit
- Shockley-Queisser limit
- sky's-the-limit
- Sparrow's resolution limit
- speed limit
- spread limit
- sublimit
- superlimit
- term-limit
- term limit
- the sky is the limit
- the sky's the limit
- ticket time limit
- time-limit
- time limit
- to the limit
- unlimit
- unlimited
- upper limit
- von Karman limit
- von Kármán limit
- wonderful limit
Descendants
- German: Limit
Translations
Adjective
limit (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#LIMITCategory:English adjectives#LIMITCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#LIMITCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- (pokerCategory:en:Poker#LIMIT) Being a fixed limit game.
See also
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#LIMITCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#LIMIT limiten, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#LIMIT limiter, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#LIMIT līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
Verb
limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)Category:English lemmas#LIMITCategory:English verbs#LIMITCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#LIMIT) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- Synonyms: check, straiten; see also Thesaurus:hinder, Thesaurus:curb
- Antonyms: expand, release
- We need to limit the power of the executive.Category:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
- I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.Category:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
- Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.Category:English terms with quotations#LIMIT
- (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#LIMIT, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#LIMIT) To have a limit in a particular set.
- The sequence limits on the point a.Category:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#LIMIT) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
- a limiting friarCategory:English terms with usage examples#LIMIT
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- “limit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “limit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “limit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Category:en:Calculus#LIMITAzerbaijani
Etymology
Borrowed from RussianCategory:Azerbaijani terms borrowed from Russian#LIMITCategory:Azerbaijani terms derived from Russian#LIMIT лими́т (limít), itself from FrenchCategory:Azerbaijani terms derived from French#LIMIT limite.
Noun
limit (definite accusative limiti, plural limitlər)Category:Azerbaijani lemmas#LIMITCategory:Azerbaijani nouns#LIMITCategory:Azerbaijani entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
Derived terms
- görkəmli limit (“wonderful limit”)
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
limit m inanCategory:Czech lemmas#LIMITCategory:Czech nouns#LIMITCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Czech masculine nouns#LIMITCategory:Czech inanimate nouns#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- “limit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “limit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Hungarian
Etymology
From EnglishCategory:Hungarian terms derived from English#LIMIT limit.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlimit]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#LIMIT
- Hyphenation: li‧mit
- Rhymes: -itCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/it#LIMITCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/it/2 syllables#LIMIT
Noun
limit (plural limitek)Category:Hungarian lemmas#LIMITCategory:Hungarian nouns#LIMITCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | limit | limitek |
| accusative | limitet | limiteket |
| dative | limitnek | limiteknek |
| instrumental | limittel | limitekkel |
| causal-final | limitért | limitekért |
| translative | limitté | limitekké |
| terminative | limitig | limitekig |
| essive-formal | limitként | limitekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | limitben | limitekben |
| superessive | limiten | limiteken |
| adessive | limitnél | limiteknél |
| illative | limitbe | limitekbe |
| sublative | limitre | limitekre |
| allative | limithez | limitekhez |
| elative | limitből | limitekből |
| delative | limitről | limitekről |
| ablative | limittől | limitektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
limité | limiteké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
limitéi | limitekéi |
References
- ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology
InternationalismCategory:Indonesian internationalisms#LIMIT, from DutchCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch#LIMITCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#LIMIT limiet, from Middle DutchCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Middle Dutch#LIMIT limiten, from Old FrenchCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Old French#LIMIT limite, from LatinCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Latin#LIMIT līmes.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlimɪt̚/Category:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#LIMIT
- Rhymes: -mɪt, -ɪt, -tCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/mɪt#LIMITCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/mɪt/2 syllables#LIMITCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ɪt#LIMITCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ɪt/2 syllables#LIMITCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/t#LIMITCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/t/2 syllables#LIMIT
- Hyphenation: li‧mit
Noun
limit (plural limit-limit)Category:Indonesian lemmas#LIMITCategory:Indonesian nouns#LIMITCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- limit:
- the final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge
- (mathematicsCategory:id:Mathematics#LIMIT) 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)
- Synonym: had (Standard Malay)
Related terms
References
Further reading
- “limit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
- P. Wayong, Djenen, Tuti (1984), Daftar Istilah Pengetahuan Sosial [Social Sciences Glossary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, page 69
Polish
Etymology
Category:Polish terms derived from Middle French#LIMITCategory:Polish terms derived from Old French#LIMITCategory:Polish terms derived from Latin#LIMITBorrowed from FrenchCategory:Polish terms borrowed from French#LIMITCategory:Polish terms derived from French#LIMIT limite.
Pronunciation
Noun
limit m inan (related adjective limitowy)Category:Polish lemmas#LIMITCategory:Polish nouns#LIMITCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Polish masculine nouns#LIMITCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go)
Declension
Derived terms
- limitować impf
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from German#LIMITCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from German#LIMIT Limit.
Noun
lìmit m inan (Cyrillic spelling лѝмит)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#LIMITCategory:Serbo-Croatian nouns#LIMITCategory:Serbo-Croatian masculine inanimate nouns#LIMITCategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns#LIMITCategory:Serbo-Croatian inanimate nouns#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
Declension
Sundanese
Etymology 1
Compare Javanese ꦭꦶꦩꦶꦠ꧀ (limit, “(of a road) flat and smooth”)
Adjective
limit (Sundanese script ᮜᮤᮙᮤᮒ᮪)Category:Sundanese lemmas#LIMITCategory:Sundanese adjectives#LIMITCategory:Sundanese entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
Etymology 2
From IndonesianCategory:Sundanese terms borrowed from Indonesian#LIMITCategory:Sundanese terms derived from Indonesian#LIMIT limit.
Noun
limit (Sundanese script ᮜᮤᮙᮤᮒ᮪)Category:Sundanese lemmas#LIMITCategory:Sundanese nouns#LIMITCategory:Sundanese entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- limit
- border
- Synonym: wates
- (mathematicsCategory:su:Mathematics#LIMIT) a value to which a sequence converges
- border
Further reading
- "LIMIT", in Coolsma, S (1913), Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij
- Dudu Prawiraatmaja, Achlan Husen, Sukandi, Ice Sutara Kama Yudibrata (1986), Perkembangan Bahasa Sunda Sesudah Perang Dunia II [Post-WWII Development of the Sundanese Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈlimit/ [ˈliː.mɪt̪̚]Category:Tagalog 2-syllable words#LIMITCategory:Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation#LIMIT
- Rhymes: -imitCategory:Rhymes:Tagalog/imit#LIMITCategory:Rhymes:Tagalog/imit/2 syllables#LIMIT
- Syllabification: li‧mitCategory:Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation#LIMIT
Etymology 1
Compare Kapampangan limit.
Noun
limit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)Category:Tagalog lemmas#LIMITCategory:Tagalog nouns#LIMITCategory:Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries#LIMITCategory:Tagalog terms with Baybayin script#LIMITCategory:Tagalog entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- frequency
- Synonyms: dalas, kadalasan, kalimitan, pagkamalimit
- closeness; compactness; density
- Synonyms: sinsin, kasinsinan
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Tagalog terms borrowed from English#LIMITCategory:Tagalog terms derived from English#LIMIT limit, from Middle EnglishCategory:Tagalog terms derived from Middle English#LIMIT limit, from Old FrenchCategory:Tagalog terms derived from Old French#LIMIT limit, from LatinCategory:Tagalog terms derived from Latin#LIMIT līmes. Doublet of limiteCategory:Tagalog doublets#LIMIT.
Noun
limit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ᜔)Category:Tagalog lemmas#LIMITCategory:Tagalog nouns#LIMITCategory:Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries#LIMITCategory:Tagalog terms with Baybayin script#LIMITCategory:Tagalog entries with incorrect language header#LIMITCategory:Pages with entries#LIMITCategory:Pages with 9 entries#LIMIT
- limit (final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge)
- Synonyms: hanggahan, kasukdulan, sukdulan, dulo, lindero
- limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go)
Related terms
Further reading
- “limit”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
- “limit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973), Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 640
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 38: “Ajuntar) Limit (pp) como rejas o otra [coſa]”
- page 307: “Eſpeſar) Limit (pp) como rejas o loque ſe hinca”
- page 307: “Eſpeſo) Limit (pp) como arboles rejas o otra coſa”
- page 377: “Iunto) Limit (pp) como rejas o otra coſa”