Definitions for limit

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limit lim·it

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IPA: /ˈlɪm ɪt/

Limit is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in limit (iilmt).

Definitions for limit

noun

1. the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.:
2. a boundary or bound, as of a country, area, or district.
3. Mathematics. a number such that the value of a given function remains arbitrarily close to this number when the independent variable is sufficiently close to a specified point or is sufficiently large. The limit of 1/ x is zero as x approaches infinity; the limit of (x − 1) 2 is zero as x approaches 1. a number such that the absolute value of the difference between terms of a given sequence and the number approaches zero as the index of the terms increases to infinity. one of two numbers affixed to the integration symbol for a definite integral, indicating the interval or region over which the integration is taking place and substituted in a primitive, if one exists, to evaluate the integral.
4. limits, the premises or region enclosed within boundaries:
5. Games. the maximum sum by which a bet may be raised at any one time.
6. the limit, Informal. something or someone that exasperates, delights, etc., to an extreme degree:

verb (used with object)

1. to restrict by or as if by establishing limits (usually followed by to):
2. to confine or keep within limits:
3. Law. to fix or assign definitely or specifically.

Origin of limit

1325-75; Middle English lymyt Latin līmit- (stem of līmes) boundary, path between fields

Examples for limit

It was in fact a little way beyond what she had come to count her limit.

There is no limit to the moral baseness of the man of avarice.

Do this up to the limit of your capital and I will make good anything you lose.

The foremost trendsetter of Scandi-sleek design and New Nordic food knows no limit to its progressive reputation.

They're negotiating now with the Rothschilds to limit the output of the Rio Tinto mines.

The sky is not the limit; beliefs still must be sincere and connected to some for-real source.

Like boxers, every missile has a reach, a range, a limit to how far it can hit.

The argument now is how to limit certain types of plays that banks can make under certain circumstances.

Environmentalists today generally prefer to limit roads and block new water projects, even in parched California.

As much money as they would pay me was the limit of my expectation.