°To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
"We need to limit the power of the executive."
°To have a limit in a particular set.
"The sequence limits on the point a."
noun
°A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
"There are several existing limits to executive power."
°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."
adjective
synonyms:
cap, restrict, bound, boundary
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, limitation, restriction