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• That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
• A chronological limitation or restriction.
• Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
• (geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
• A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
• Relations among people.
• Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
• Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
• With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
• (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
• (archaic) A menstrual period.
• (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
• (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
• (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
• (arts) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
• (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.