Limit vs. Limited: What's the Difference?
Limit and Limited Definitions
Limit
The point, edge, or line beyond which something ends, may not go, or is not allowed
The 12-mile fishing limit.
The limit of my patience.
Limited
Confined or restricted within certain limits
Has only limited experience.
Limit
Limits The boundary surrounding a specific area; bounds
Within the city limits.
Limited
Not attaining the highest goals or achievement
A limited success.
Limit
Something that restricts or restrains; a restraint
The child needs to have limits put on his behavior.
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Limited
Having only mediocre talent or range of ability
A popular but limited actor.
Limit
The greatest or least amount, number, or extent allowed or possible
A withdrawal limit of $200.
No minimum age limit.
Limited
Having governmental or ruling powers restricted by enforceable limitations, as a constitution or a legislative body
Limited monarchy.
Limit
(Games) The largest amount which may be bet at one time in games of chance.
Limited
Abbr. Ltd. Of or relating to a limited company.
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Limit
A number or point L that is approached by a function f(x) as x approaches a if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number δ such that |f(x)-L| < ε if |x-a| < δ.
Limited
Of, relating to, or being transportation facilities, such as trains or buses, that make few stops and carry relatively few passengers.
Limit
A number or point L that is approached by a sequence bn if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number N such that |bn-L| < ε if n > N. Also called limit point.
Limited
A limited train or bus.
Limit
(Informal) One that is intolerable, remarkable, or extreme in some other way
"That's the limit!" the babysitter exclaimed after the child spilled a glass of milk.
Limited
Simple past tense and past participle of limit
Limit
To confine or restrict with a limit
Let's limit the discussion to what is doable. The offer limits us to three for a dollar.
Limited
With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
Limit
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
Limited
Restricted, small, few, not plentiful.
There are limited places available. Enrol now or you will miss out.
I have a limited understanding of quantum physics.
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).
The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
Limited
(rail) An express train that only halts at a limited number of stops.
Limit
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
Limited
Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.
Limit
(category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Limited
Small in range or scope;
Limited war
A limited success
A limited circle of friends
Limit
(poker) Fixed limit.
Limited
Subject to limits or subjected to limits
Limit
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
The limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
Limited
Including only a part
Limit
(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
Limited
Mediocre
Limit
(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
Limited
Not excessive
Limit
(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
Limited
Having a specific function or scope;
A special (or specific) role in the mission
Limit
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
Limited
Not unlimited;
A limited list of choices
Limit
(cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
Limit
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Limit
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
Limit
(transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
We need to limit the power of the executive.
I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
Limit
To have a limit in a particular set.
The sequence limits on the point a.
Limit
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
A limiting friar
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.
As eager of the chase, the maidBeyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
Limit
The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided itInto three limits very equally.
Limit
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
The limit of your lives is out.
Limit
A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
Limit
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
Limit
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.
Limit
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.
Limit
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
Limit
The greatest possible degree of something;
What he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior
To the limit of his ability
Limit
Final or latest limiting point
Limit
The boundary of a specific area
Limit
As far as something can go
Limit
The mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
Limit
The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed;
There are limits on the amount you can bet
It is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight
Limit
Place limits on (extent or access);
Restrict the use of this parking lot
Limit the time you can spend with your friends
Limit
Restrict or confine,
I limit you to two visits to the pub a day
Limit
Decide upon or fix definitely;
Fix the variables
Specify the parameters
