Definition of limit

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Limit (v. t.) 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..

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Overpass :: Overpass (v. t.) To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits..
Oscillate :: Oscillate (v. i.) To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth..
Forest :: Forest (n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own..
Specification :: Specification (n.) The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.
Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. t.) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house..
Indefinitely :: Indefinitely (adv.) In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely..
Illimitable :: Illimitable (a.) Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space..
Confiner :: Confiner (n.) One who, or that which, limits or restrains..
Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..
Screed :: Screed (n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat..
Definitive :: Definitive (a.) Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word..
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..
Swatte :: Swather (n.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
Border :: Border (v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest..
Quadrable :: Quadrable (a.) That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms..
Condition :: Condition (n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of..
Exterritoriality :: Exterritoriality (n.) The state of being free from the jurisdiction of a country when within its territorial limits.
Endosperm :: Endosperm (n.) The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
Tail :: Tail (n.) Limitation; abridgment.
Conditional :: Conditional (n.) A limitation.
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