limit

Definitions

• A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• (mathematics) 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).
• (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• (category theory) The cone of a diagram factor through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor factor uniquely.
• (poker) fixed Fixed limit.
• The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• (logic) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
• (colloquial) A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.