LIMIT
Limit
In mathematics, a limit is the value that a function or sequence "approaches" as the input or index approaches some value. Limits are essential to calculus and are used to define continuity, derivatives, and integrals.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Limit (mathematics)
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limit
Noun
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- 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).
- The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- Given diagram F : J → C, a cone (L, φ) from L ∈ Ob(C) to F is the limit of F if it has the universal property that for any other cone (N, ψ) from N ∈ Ob(C) to F there is a unique morphism u : N → L such that for all X ∈ Ob(J), <math> \phi_X \circ u = \psi_X </math>.
- Short for fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- The space or thing defined by limits.
- That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
Verb
- To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
- To have a limit in a particular set.
- To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
Adjective
- Being a fixed limit game.
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