limits

Noun

limit (plural limits)

1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
   • There are several existing limits to executive power.
2. 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.
3. Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
   • Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
4. The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.

   Synonyms:

   inverse limit, projective limit

5. Fixed limit.
6. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
   • the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country

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