Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Limit"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Limit \Lim"it\, v. i.
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited
region; as, a limiting friar. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Limited}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Limiting}.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr.
limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E.
eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.]
To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate,
circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit
the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to
limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of
a word.
{Limiting parallels} (Astron.), those parallels of latitude
between which only an occultation of a star or planet by
the moon, in a given case, can occur.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), n. [From L. limes, limitis: cf.
F. limite; or from E. limit, v. See {Limit}, v. t.]
1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or
confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent;
as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the
limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's
verdant limits strayed. --Pope.
2. The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits
very equally. --Shak.
3. That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period
itself; the full time or extent.
The dateless limit of thy dear exile. --Shak.
The limit of your lives is out. --Shak.
4. A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue. --Shak.
5. (Logic & Metaph.) A determining feature; a distinguishing
characteristic; a differentia.
6. (Math.) 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.
{Elastic limit}. See under {Elastic}.
{Prison limits}, a definite extent of space in or around a
prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and
come.
Syn: Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound;
confine.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
limit
n 1: the greatest possible degree of something: "what he did was
beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit
of his ability" [syn: {bounds}, {boundary}]
2: final or latest limiting point [syn: {terminus ad quem}, {terminal
point}]
3: the boundary of a specific area [syn: {demarcation}, {demarcation
line}]
4: as far as something can go
5: the greatest amount of something that is possible or
allowed; "there are limits on the amount you can bet"; "it
is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight" [syn: {limitation}]
6: a mathematical value toward which a function goes as the
independent variable approaches infinity [syn: {limit
point}, {point of accumulation}]
v 1: place limits on; "restrict the use of this parking lot"
[syn: {restrict}, {restrain}, {trammel}, {bound}, {confine},
{throttle}]
2: place under restrictions; limit access to [syn: {restrict}]
[ant: {derestrict}]
3: restrict or confine, as to area, extent, time, etc. [syn: {circumscribe},
{confine}]
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