Definition of Limit

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Definition of Limit

Limit

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.

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; a curb; a hindrance.

A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.

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.

To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.

To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.

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Limit Quotations

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
Tony Robbins

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.
Glenn Beck

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen Hawking

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan Rivers

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent

Limit Translations

limit in Afrikaans is grens
limit in Dutch is beperken, begrenzen, beknotten
limit in Finnish is raja
limit in French is circonscrivez, limitons, circonscrivons, limitez
limit in Italian is delimitare, frontiera
limit in Latin is terminus, finis
limit in Norwegian is begrense, grense
limit in Portuguese is limite

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