limit

• the greatest possible degree of something
• place limits on (extent or access)
• restrict or confine, ´´I limit you to two visits to the pub a day´´
• decide upon or fix definitely
• the boundary of a specific area
• final or latest limiting point
• as far as something can go
• the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
• the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
• That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines
• The space or thing defined by limits
• That which terminates a period of time
• A restriction
• A determining feature
• A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent
• To apply a limit to, or set a limit for
• To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region

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