From en.wiktionary.org:
[Limit]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], from [en]. Displaced native [ang]. [en]. [wikipedia]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
2. * [chapter=21]
3. * [chapter=Episode 17]
4. * 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, _Financial Times_ , “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution” (see http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/79b81e42-648f-11e1-9aa1-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links/rss/companies_financials/feed//product#axzz1pyqGXZcE) :
5. *: At the time, there seemed to be no LIMIT to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
6. [en] A value to which a sequence converge s. 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).
7. [en] Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
8. [en] The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
9. [en] Fixed limit .
10. The final , utmost , or furthest point ; the border or edge.
11. * [passage=As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant LIMITS strayed.]
12. * [en]
13. [en] The space or thing defined by limits.
14. * [III]
15. [en] That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
16. * [I]
17. * [III]
18. [en] A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
19. * [II]
20. [en] A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
21. [en] The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
22. [en] A person who is exasperating , intolerable , astounding , etc.
23. * [1=en]
***** Synonyms
- [restriction] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|antilimit|colimit|limital|limitarian|limitive|lintel|overlimit|sublimit|superlimit|unlimit|Atterberg
limit|Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit|GZK limit|Hayashi limit|Landauer
limit|limit comparison test|push the limit|Sparrow's resolution limit|the
sky's the limit |Armstrong limit|Betz limit|blowdown limit|cash
limit|Chandrasekhar limit|Chu-Harrington limit|credit limit|Deutsch
limit|diffraction limit|direct limit|dizzy limit|Eddington limit|Gabrielli-von
Karman limit|Gabrielli-von Kármán limit|giddy limit|Hayflick limit|Karman
limit|Kármán limit|limit bid|limit break|limit cardinal|limit case|limit
cycle|limit inferior|limit order|limit ordinal|limit point|limit
situation|limit superior|McDowell limit|McQ limit|McQuary limit|no limit|pot
limit|quantum limit|rate limit|Roche limit|Shannon limit|Shockley-Queisser
limit|sky's-the-limit|speed limit|spread limit|term limit|term-limit|ticket
time limit|time-limit|von Karman limit|von Kármán limit |age limit
|Bremermann's limit |central limit theorem<!--mathematics--> |city limit(s)
|elastic limit |in the limit|wonderful limit |limit down |limit of positive
stability |limit up |limitation |limitless |limit switch |lower
limit<!--mathematics--> |outer limit |the sky is the limit |to the limit |time
limit |unlimited |upper limit<!--mathematics--> }}
***** Descendants
- [de]
***** Translations
[restriction; bound beyond which one may not go]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] [physical] , [da] [what one can handle]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms] [archaic]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian:
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Javanese: [kaw]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [physical] [sv] , [what one can handle] [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[mathematics: value to which a sequence converges]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Khmer: [km]
- Malay: [ms]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Urdu: [ur]
[trans-bottom]
[mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Being a fixed limit game.
**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [la]; see noun.
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To restrict ; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound , to set boundaries .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-08-10 | volume=408 | issue=8848 | magazine=w:The Economist | title= Can China clean up fast enough? (see http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21583277-worlds-biggest-polluter-going-green-it-needs-speed-up-transition-can-china)
|passage=[The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is
planning to LIMIT the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved
body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] To have a limit in a particular set.
3. [en] To beg , or to exercise function s, within a certain limited region.
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|limitable|prelimit |limit out|self-limiting}}
***** Translations
[restrict]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] ), [vi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Azerbaijani
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [az], itself from [az].
*** Noun
[az-noun]
1. [en]
1. [az] [en]
**** Derived terms
- [az]
** Czech
*** Pronunciation
- [cs-IPA]
- [cs]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[m]
**** Related terms
[cs]
*** Further reading
- [R:cs:PSJC]
- [R:cs:SSJC]
** Hungarian
*** Etymology
From [hu].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [hu-IPA]
- [hu]
- [hu]
*** Noun
[ek]
1. [en] [the final, utmost, or furthest point]
**** Declension
[limite][limit]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:TotfalusiEty 2005]
[2]. [author=Nicoline van der Sijs]
** Indonesian
[lang=id]
*** Etymology
[id], from [id], from [id], from [id], from [id].[2]
*** Pronunciation
- [id]
- [id]
- [id]
*** Noun
[id-noun]
1. [en] :
1. the final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge
2. [id] 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)
**** Related terms
{{col|id| | limitasi | limitatif |}}
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:TotfalusiEty 2005]
[2]. [author=Nicoline van der Sijs]
*** Further reading
- [R:KBBI Daring]
- [id]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl] [pl].
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-limit.ogg]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [en] [restriction; bound beyond which one may not go]
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-in]
**** Derived terms
[pl]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
** Serbo-Croatian
*** Etymology
[sh].
*** Noun
[lìmit]
1. boundary
2. boundary that cannot be surpassed
**** Declension
{{sh-decl-noun |limit|limiti |limita|limita |limitu|limitima |limit|limite
|limite|limiti |limitu|limitima |limitom|limitima }}
** Sundanese
*** Etymology 1
Compare [jv]
**** Adjective
[su]
1. smooth , neat
*** Etymology 2
From [su].
**** Noun
[su]
1. [en]
1. border
2. [su] a value to which a sequence converge s
*** Further reading
- "LIMIT", in [R:Coolsma]
- [id]
** Tagalog
*** Pronunciation
[tl-pr]
*** Etymology 1
Compare [pam].
**** Noun
[b=+]
1. frequency
2. closeness ; compactness ; density
***** Derived terms
[tl]
*** Etymology 2
[tl], from [tl], from [tl], from [tl]. [tl].
**** Noun
[b=+]
1. [en] [final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge]
2. [en] [restriction; bound beyond which one may not go]
***** Related terms
[tl]
*** Further reading
- [R:KWF Diksiyonaryo]
- [R:Pambansang Diksiyonaryo]
- [page=640]
- [R:Vocabulario de la lengua tagala 1613]
- page 38: [Ajuntar) Limit (pp) como rejas o otra [ coſa ]]
- page 307: [Eſpeſar) Limit (pp) como rejas o loque ſe hinca]
- page 307: [Eſpeſo) Limit (pp) como arboles rejas o otra coſa]
- page 377: [Iunto) Limit (pp) como rejas o otra coſa]
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