Dictionary Entry
limit
limit is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
The space or thing defined by limits.
- 3transitive verb
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- 4transitive verb
A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
- 5transitive verb
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
- 6transitive verb
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.
- 7transitive verb
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.
- 8intransitive verb
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
- 9noun
the greatest possible degree of something
"what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"
"to the limit of his ability"
- 10noun
the boundary of a specific area
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- 11noun
as far as something can go
- 12noun
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"
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- 13noun
the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
- 14noun
final or latest limiting point
- 15verb
place limits on (extent or access)
"restrict the use of this parking lot"
"limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- 16verb
restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
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- 17verb
decide upon or fix definitely
"fix the variables"
"specify the parameters"
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