limit

limit (nominative singular)
limity (nominative plural)
limitu (genitive singular)
limitů (genitive plural)
limitu (dative singular)
limitům (dative plural)
limit (accusative singular)
limity (accusative plural)
limite (singular vocative)
limity (plural vocative)
limitu (locative singular)
limitech (locative plural)
limitem (instrumental singular)
limity (instrumental plural)


limit

There are several existing limits to executive power.

Two drinks is my limit tonight.

It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:

Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […]

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

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.

2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”

A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.

(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).

Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.

(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.

(category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.

the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country

As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.

1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

"Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."

2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 59:

The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.

the dateless limit of thy dear exile

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

The limit of your lives is out.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.

I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.

(logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.

(cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.

Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared.

1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 63:

(colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

German: Limit

kufi

restriction; bound beyond which one may not go

نِهَايَة

mathematics: value to which a sequence converges

grænseværdi

mathematics: abstraction of concept of limit

From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.


limit

We need to limit the power of the executive.

I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.

[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.

2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.

2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:

(transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

The sequence limits on the point a.

(mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.

a limiting friar

(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

en-verb

limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)

limits (present singular third-person)
limiting (participle present)
limited (participle past)
limited (past)

From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.


limit

limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)

limitek (plural)
limit (nominative singular)
limitek (nominative plural)
limitet (accusative singular)
limiteket (accusative plural)
limitnek (dative singular)
limiteknek (dative plural)
limittel (instrumental singular)
limitekkel (instrumental plural)
limitért (causal-final singular)
limitekért (causal-final plural)
limitté (singular translative)
limitekké (plural translative)
limitig (singular terminative)
limitekig (plural terminative)
limitként (essive-formal singular)
limitekként (essive-formal plural)
limitben (inessive singular)
limitekben (inessive plural)
limiten (singular superessive)
limiteken (plural superessive)
limitnél (adessive singular)
limiteknél (adessive plural)
limitbe (illative singular)
limitekbe (illative plural)
limitre (singular sublative)
limitekre (plural sublative)
limithez (allative singular)
limitekhez (allative plural)
limitből (elative singular)
limitekből (elative plural)
limitről (delative singular)
limitekről (delative plural)
limittől (ablative singular)
limitektől (ablative plural)
limité (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
limiteké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
limitéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
limitekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
limitem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
limitjeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
limited (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
limitjeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
limitje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
limitjei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
limitünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
limitjeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
limitetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
limitjeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
limitjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
limitjeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


limit

the final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

(Standard Malay)

Internationalism, from Dutch limiet, from Middle Dutch limiten, from Old French limite, from Latin līmes.


limit

limit (restriction; bound beyond which one may not go)

pl-noun

limit m inan (related adjective limitowy)

limitowy (adjective)
limit (nominative singular)
limity (nominative plural)
limitu (genitive singular)
limitów (genitive plural)
limitowi (dative singular)
limitom (dative plural)
limit (accusative singular)
limity (accusative plural)
limitem (instrumental singular)
limitami (instrumental plural)
limicie (locative singular)
limitach (locative plural)
limicie (singular vocative)
limity (plural vocative)


limit

lìmit (canonical masculine)
лѝмит (Cyrillic)
limit (nominative singular)
limiti (nominative plural)
limita (genitive singular)
limita (genitive plural)
limitu (dative singular)
limitima (dative plural)
limit (accusative singular)
limite (accusative plural)
limite (singular vocative)
limiti (plural vocative)
limitu (locative singular)
limitima (locative plural)
limitom (instrumental singular)
limitima (instrumental plural)